You didn't read my reply did you?

It is a very valid argument that what ever figure you put on the number of Core developers, you can add one to that for Knots, so if you say 200 devs, then Knots has 201.

If I take any code and add a couple of lines or change a few parameters and create my own version, I haven't written that app by myself, I have modified an app written by others by a small amount.