btw., this 5GB+ of compressed source code means (using conservative calculations, and taking code duplication across projects and packages into account), that the raw linecount of the OSS source codebase distributed via Debian has exceeded half a billion (500 million) lines of code. Wow!
That makes Linux and OSS the largest man-made science project in history. It also means that the cost of redeveloping the Debian codebase using commerical methods could exceed 100 billion US dollars. [Sidenote: no wonder the only remaining anti-Linux company (MS) is worried - they
Sophie, every faith in the world is based on fabrication. That is the definition of faith — acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.