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On Tue, 17 Jan 2012, Chris Rees wrote:

> > what percentage of linux devs are on salary to develop linux?
> >
> 
> You're not comparing like with like.
> 
> Linux is not an OS; FreeBSD is.
> 
> Are you talking about Linux? Debian? Red Hat?
================

linux is, in fact, an operating system.

debian, red hat, ubuntu, gentoo, etc are distributions of that OS.


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