The Myth of the Isolated Kernel Hacker

Ant writes "The Linux Foundation's report (PDF) on who writes Linux — "... Linux isn't written by lonely nerds hiding out in their parents' basements. It's written by people working for major companies — many of them businesses that you probably don't associate with Linux. To be exact, while 18.2% of Linux is written by people who aren't working for a company, and 7.6% is created by programmers who don't give a company affiliation, everything else is written by someone who's getting paid to create Linux. From top to bottom, of the companies that have contributed more than 1% of the current Linux kernel, the list looks like this: ..."

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Re:The Myth of the Isolated Colenel Hacker

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The last thing I want is to constantly defrag my system, scan for mallware and have my so called awesome GUI called explorer crash every now and then because of the failed driver model and then not being able to ctrl+alt+backspace and restart it again. FUCK YOU!!!! Linux is 100 times better than Windows in every aspect! You know it and your trolling will have zero effect on the truth and the FLOSS movement. Get ready to be raped as a programmer in a year or 5 or so when Linux will crush the competition on the desktop, since it is already more ready for the desktop then the entire software industry out there, including Apple. Nothing beats the foundation of KDE 4.3 and that makes Linux actually very much ahead of the 'competition', fucktard.