[snoopsnopp]

When I was junior I used to buy this explanation, but 9,000 developers is probably more then are actually working on huge projects like Linux or .NET it’s approx 100 times more developers then you’d ever reasonably hire. It’s just for financial reasons it’s cheap to double up of devs instead of giving raises

[objclxt]

> When I was junior I used to buy this explanation, but 9,000 developers is probably more then are actually working on huge projects like Linux

They don't have 9000 developers, they have 9000 employees.

[stuartleigh]

They don't have 9000 developers, they have 9000 staff.

[phaer]

9000 employees, not developers alone.