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Who Wrote, and Paid For, 2.6.20
Corbet writes "LWN.net did some data mining through the kernel source repository and put together an analysis of where the patches came from. It turns out that most kernel code is contributed by people paid to do the work — but the list of companies sponsoring kernel development has a surprise or two." The article's conclusion: "The end result of all this is that a number of the widely-expressed opinions about kernel development turn out to be true. There really are thousands of developers — at least, almost 2,000 who put in at least one patch over the course of the last year. Linus Torvalds is directly responsible for a very small portion of the code which makes it into the kernel. Contemporary kernel development is spread out among a broad group of people, most of whom are paid for the work they do. Overall, the picture is of a broad-based and well-supported development community."
Ah, the virtue of selfishness. Yep -- "THAT woman".
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This is why the GPL makes code Free, while the BSD license makes programmers Free.
...semantics... free as in beer, or free as a bird ?
That's true!.. But also, the BSD license makes the code *free" to go to a non-open source project, while the GPL code is not so free as to do so.
Code produced by women sometimes slips into the source tree, but is specifically purged from the kernel by a team of highly trained misogynists (jointly funded by IBM and RedHat). It's a well known fact that women have brains shaped like prams and are therefore unable to contribute kernel code of sufficient quality (especially during the 'time of the month'). Women have however, applied thier pretty little heads to the serious shortcomings in glibc's shopping(5c), makeup(3) and gossip(7) interfaces. They really are treasures you know.