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Microsoft Developer Made the Most Changes To Linux 3.0 Code

Posted by Soulskill on from the truth-is-stranger-than-fiction dept.

sfcrazy sends this quote from the H: "The 343 changes made by Microsoft developer K. Y. Srinivasan put him at the top of a list, created by LWN.net, of developers who made the most changes in the current development cycle for Linux 3.0. Along with a number of other 'change sets,' Microsoft provided a total of 361 changes, putting it in seventh place on the list of companies and groups that contributed code to the Linux kernel. By comparison, independent developers provided 1,085 change sets to Linux 3.0, while Red Hat provided 1,000 and Intel 839."

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  1. Re:Community Myth by Sun · · Score: 3, Interesting

    And then I, as lead (and often only) developer for several FOSS projects, get an email with a question, suggestion or bug report to my personal email. When I reply with "please use the mailing list", people like you, who, to them, "community" means that the lead developer needs to answer their questions directly, complain, get upset, and sometimes get downright rude.

    As a lead developer, I want a community to form. This means that I want to give all people in the community a chance to answer your question, not only myself personally.

    Shachar

  2. Re:Yes let's just get down and dirty in the code by Bert64 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Interestingly, windows boots a lot faster inside of a vm running on linux than it does on the hative hardware (seriously, give it a try)...
    If going the other way round, linux runs somewhat slower inside of a vm running on windows... The performance penalty when running in a vm on linux is much smaller.

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  3. Re:The number itself is entertaining but ... by Entrope · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This. Some of the people on LKML pointed out that the guy's floods of ~180 patches at a time grossly violated the patch submission standards laid out in Documentation/SubmittingPatches ("Do not more than 15 patches at once to the vger mailing lists!!!"). I know it annoyed me, and it seemed like a huge amount of code churn for a driver in staging. I didn't realize until I saw this story what the driver was or who the author was.