[nycbug-talk] 75% of Linux code now written by paid devs

[Joseph S. Atkinson]

On 1/22/2010 9:46 AM, forest mars wrote:
> Somewhat horribly written article that nonetheless contains some
> surprising statistics about the state of Linux development, most of
> which seems to be cribbed from Jonathan Corbet's Linux.conf.au
> <http://Linux.conf.au> talk:
> 
> http://apcmag.com/linux-now-75-corporate.htm
> 
> 

I'm surprised this is news to anyone. I've been under the impression
that the likes of Red Hat, Novell, IBM, etc. had been steering Linux
development since the 90s. The 18% of "unaffiliated" code shouldn't be
assumed to be from the community at broad either. A large part of them
probably come from small firms who pushed local fixes upstream but
didn't use it as a means of self promotion.

> 
> 
> forest mars
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