It makes sense in Terry A. Davis/Temple OS sense. Someone mentally ill needs everything to be symmetrical. They substitute o with Ⓞ in www.gⓄⓄgle.com I think they use fancy unicode to have a bearable symmetrical font; And someday they found that they can upload stuff to github and they upload what they made.






You are mixing up the units here. Value is not a real money, and you can’t pay salaries with value. You can pay salaries with cash.
To actually get how many LOC in a kernel per person per year they produce. You need to look at git history, and do data science on it. It’s doable and easy but not really my area of expertise.
You need to account for that vast majority of contributors make just one patch and they are never heard from again. They don’t work full time, or even part time on the kernel.