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Meeks: Measuring the true success of OpenOffice.orgMeeks: Measuring the true success of OpenOffice.orgPosted Oct 10, 2008 21:50 UTC (Fri) by neilbrown (subscriber, #359)In reply to: Meeks: Measuring the true success of OpenOffice.org by tzafrir Parent article: Meeks: Measuring the true success of OpenOffice.org Most of the contributors to the Linux kernel are corporates, not individuals. Are you sure? Checkout "Greg Kroah Hartman on the Linux Kernel" on video.google.com. About 24 minutes in there is a nice table of where the contributions really come from. Number 1 is "Amateurs"
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Meeks: Measuring the true success of OpenOffice.org Posted Oct 10, 2008 23:01 UTC (Fri) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]
Yes, more precisely it was hobbyists or people whose organizations affiliations were unknown or they didn't want it disclosed followed by Red Hat, IBM, Novell and others. If you add those up, you can easily see that he large majority of contributions are from commercial organizations.
Meeks: Measuring the true success of OpenOffice.org Posted Oct 11, 2008 5:11 UTC (Sat) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501) [Link]
No. 1 "contributor company" is "(None)". But those unaffiliated individuals are still responsible for only 15%-20% of the code. What about the rest?
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