LPC: Fitting into the kernel ecosystem

Yes, counting users tends to be fuzzy but Fedora has published some statistics which provides a good estimate. If others do too (along with smolt profiles), we would get a better understanding of our user base and use that to convince vendors and ourselves to support Linux better.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Statistics

It is possible to be more accurate but at the cost of privacy which is not a good balance but more details at

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Statistics/Ideas

I am sure there is a agenda involved in getting commercial vendors involved to participate more which I think is a good thing. If there are accusations of anything else. being explicit is (somewhat) courteous. I don't see anybody mentioning "evil". Debian contributing as many patches as it has as a volunteer based organization seems pretty remarkable to me neverthless.