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LPC: Fitting into the kernel ecosystemLPC: Fitting into the kernel ecosystemPosted Sep 23, 2008 22:42 UTC (Tue) by frankie (subscriber, #13593)Parent article: LPC: Fitting into the kernel ecosystem
In a past google talk, Greg expressed the same observations about Google contributes. The only true Google contributor is Andrew Morton, which is quite peculiar. So I think it is not a specific issue with Canonical: if you look at figures, indeed the main part of contributors are not sponsored by the big actors. This is a fact, not a personal attack.
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LPC: Fitting into the kernel ecosystem Posted Sep 23, 2008 22:49 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
There are plenty of free software contributors at Google (Ian Lance Taylor
and Guido van Rossum to name just two: a random grep of the changelogs of any major plumbing component will find more although I suppose it's hard to find many people who have the same sort of influence on anything that Guido does on Python).
Of course if one considers GCC, the binutils and Python to be
LPC: Fitting into the kernel ecosystem Posted Sep 23, 2008 22:54 UTC (Tue) by frankie (subscriber, #13593) [Link]
Of course, Greg was pointing the kernel at the time of that talk.
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