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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."
...to search in the kernel source repository for FUD which Slashdot seems to need so much?
That's a nice theory, but if true, then Linux is full of "snags" and it won't see greater adoption until it stops being a steaming pile of dogshit. For every company that finds a bug painful enough that they dedicate a team to fixing it, there will be hundreds/thousands more companies that decide linux is a turd that can't be polished. For home users, the ratio is even worse.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
I almost believed that one for a second.
Perhaps you should look at Apache, Perl, Python, PostgreSQL... (All either BSD or BSD Like Licensed)
I am not bashing GPL here, but your statement is completely wrong.
I don't see how this is such a surprise. Generally speaking the best devs are employed. Wonks that complain about "The Man" and "The Corporation" are just mental gimps that never rose above the ordinary sheeple to join those that could produce something people were willing to pay for.
And 90% of the time these paid devs are in the code because some wonk didn't know what they were doing and the code needs to be FIXED.
I originally had high hopes for open source, but as time goes on the reality is that everyone needs to make a buck to pay the rent and put food on the table. And that is where most of their attention goes. Even these so called OSS elite are making money off of OSS writing books, giving talks, doing contract work, creating add-ons, etc all off of OSS. It's an industry even though they like to hide behind a phony curtain of pseudo-ethics.
Ah, the virtue of selfishness. Yep -- "THAT woman".
Fuck Slashdot
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.
Suspicions verified. Linux is subsidized by large corporations.
.... open source is vulnerable.
Mission accomplished because you killed off the little guy in the market.
Moreover, we all pay for the open source development via the product price hike. Of course, there is a tax write off for supporting a non profit operation? So, sock it to the tax payer too.
Hmm