Well of course, but debian isn&#x27;t developed by a single maintainer, there&#x27;s about 260 active maintainers and I believe well over 1000 contributors per year.<p>Either way, I don&#x27;t think we should compare either on anything other than what they produce.  You&#x27;re free to think Ubuntu providers a better distro but please base it on something that isn&#x27;t meta such as number of paid employees, because that does a disservice to those who give up their free time.