Do you mean this figure?
Posted May 15, 2007 23:56 UTC (Tue) by
JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330)
In reply to:
Do you mean this figure? by dark
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Schwartz: Free advice for the litigious
Generally speaking, Linux distributions haven't included any Java code from Sun. This will change in the future, now that Sun has GPLed it.
Sun does deserve tons of credit for OpenOffice, and they've made important contributions to Gnome (especially for disabled people, and the assistive technology they donated has been picked up by KDE as well). But 25% seems a bit high.
It might be an interesting project to do a contributor line count for a whole distribution, like LWN did for the Linux kernel.
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