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Who wrote it

Posted Apr 1, 2008 17:22 UTC (Tue) by gregkh (subscriber, #8)
In reply to: Who wrote it by coriordan
Parent article: The Linux Foundation's kernel development paper

> I think many people will take a misleading view from this about who free
> software is written by.

That was not the goal of this paper.  The goal was to report who had been doing the work in
the past 3 years.

Your goal is a nice one, and can easily be done if you dig through the commit logs, but again,
was not the goal of this paper, so that is why it is not covered.

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Who wrote it

Posted Apr 1, 2008 19:01 UTC (Tue) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link]

It's just a misinterpretation/misuse that I expect.

I've seen people cite a similar article posted one year ago (Who wrote 2.6.20?) as evidence that GNU/Linux is a corporate project rather than a community one.