On 3/6/07, James G. Sack (jim) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Who wrote 2.6.20?
Has some nice tables showing employers of the contributors.
Red Hat, Red Hat, and IBM. Nothing surprising there. More
interesting is the other companies that contribute. University of
Aberdeen, Sony, Broadcom. What's Sony doing in there? (Yes, I know
that I could look.)
As for the "Are they really volunteers?" question... Even being paid
by your company to hack on Linux doesn't necessarily make you no
longer a volunteer. I imagine that many paid kernel coders like doing
it, maybe did it before they were hired to the company, and maybe
would keep doing it even if they weren't paid.
At least, that's a romantic notion of Linux kernel development that I
feel would hold up to a reality test pretty well.
-todd
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