You have to remember Novell only has a few hundreds [sic] of engineers working on Linux, right? Novell has almost 4000 employees at the moment, so the vast majority of people don't actually do this code.

There are two reasonable implications for which the author is going.  One is that the portion of the organization that works on Linux is insignificant, this is not the case as R&D spending in the US averages about 2.5% of a firm's budget.  Tow, the speaker then fails to apply context by saying the ratio of engineers that work on Linux to other software packages or what other firms do.

Avoid excepting claims regarding an actor in a context when no comparison is provided to other entities in that context.