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by gtaylor 4864 days ago
I am sure they are larger, but I highly doubt they invest as much time (full-time), and do it as cohesively as Canonical. That's without factoring in all of the volunteers and other unpaid contributors. Debian has a notoriously slow, bikesheddy decision-making process, also.

Whether you like them or not, Canonical is probably going to be able to do this a bit better. They really can't afford to not do it any better. The mindshare difference is particularly staggering right now. This isn't a direct measure of mind share, but take this as an example:

http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=debian%2C%20ubuntu%2C...