On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Tim Dobson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Nico Morrison wrote: > >> I LIKE the idea of people writing the Linux kernel code outside of company >> hours. >> > > Does anyone do this? > > From What I can see here: www.cs.tut.fi/~tta/demography.pdf (Specifically > sections 5 and 6) a few must, but a considerable number appear to be *large* > companies. > > I am appalled that a coder can approve his or her own patch. Interesting >> stuff. >> > > Er well in kernel development they can't. They can run it on their own > system etc and pass it around, but to get it into the mainline kernel there > are processes and QA proceedures the kernel project has put in place. > > Tim > This was just slashdotted @ http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/08/20/1342223/The-Myth-of-the-Isolated-Kernel-Hackerand I thought it was relevant; The Linux Foundation's report on who writes Linux — "... Linux isn't written by lonely nerds hiding out in their parents' basements. It's written by people working for major companies — many of them businesses that you probably don't associate with Linux. To be exact, while 18.2% of Linux is written by people who aren't working for a company, and 7.6% is created by programmers who don't give a company affiliation, everything else is written by someone who's getting paid to create Linux. " Shaun (I know, my first post, nothing but linkage. I swear it's totally on-topic tho!)
