Can someone explain how git can be slow for these folks while the Linux kernel continues to use git? Do these performance issues plague Linus as well? Or is the Linux kernel smaller than the code in TFA?
From the article. That's a very big difference.
It would be better if the corporate developers just moved onto Linux Distros. The software and hardware quality is 99% there already.
TL;DR, the Linux codebase there (version 3.1) is about 15M LOC, versus e.g. Windows Vista at 50M, MacOS at 85M, and Google at 2B. Not sure where Dropbox fits in that, but it's probably a similar order of magnitude to Linux and co.