[ Thanks to More
CAOS Theory for this link. ]
“This, along with the ‘unknown’ category that slips in
between top contributor Red Hat and second-largest contributor IBM,
accounts for more than a quarter of the kernel contributions (18.2%
from none and another 7.6% from unknown). Does this mean that
pizza-eating developers who don’t make any money are the main
contributors to Linux? Certainly not. We know that most open source
software developers have ‘day jobs’ working on other software,
sometimes proprietary. Still, given our research on community Linux
and its impact on the paid Linux market, it is interesting to see
that there is still plenty of community development going on, even
while corporate support and involvement continues to
grow.”