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Novell Rises to Second Highest Linux Contributor

Posted by Zonk on from the putting-yourself-out-there dept.

eldavojohn writes "Which companies contribute the most to the Linux kernel? Well, The Linux Foundation released their results and Novell's contributions have gone up 250% (from 3.6% of all contributions to 14.4% of all contributions) to put them at #2 behind Red Hat. This chart also illustrates just how widely Linux is modified by the community and not just a handful of developers/companies. You can find more coverage on blogs and the original report."

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  1. Re:Where is Canonical? by apokryphos · · Score: 3, Informative

    Ubuntu is mainly a packaging and marketing distribution (packaging Debian's package snapshots), and not really a big contributor to new technologies or upstream free software so much like Red Hat or SUSE. So I don't think they employ any kernel developers at all. And no, it's not like Ubuntu has many desktop developers rather than low-level developers (as the comments below suggest) -- I think they only employ three desktop developers (who mainly work on packaging anyway as I recall), in contrast to SUSE's very many desktop developers in OO.o (something like 15 there alone), KDE, GNOME, etc.

    In fact, the reality is also that Canonical's only other big flagship product, Launchpad, is completely proprietary.