On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 12:37 AM, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote:
On 04/05/2012 08:14 AM, Mayuresh wrote:
... snip ...
Having said that, I don't expect them to show up high in the stats in
the upcoming years because maintenance work in such drivers isn't that
high typically. What
On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 09:13:20PM -0600, Kaustubh Gadkari wrote:
love of all things FOSS - in fact, they were almost certainly driven
by their economic baseline. Why does that make their kernel
contributions bad (for the lack of a better word)?
Not at all. Did I say anything that suggests
On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 08:19:20AM +0530, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote:
If you see that the business interest actually translates into
requiring to contribute kernel code, aren't they anyway enhancing the
kernel ?
Never denied that. The term is key contributor and it is arrived at on
the
On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 6:45 PM, Mayuresh mayur...@acm.org wrote:
On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 08:19:20AM +0530, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote:
If you see that the business interest actually translates into
requiring to contribute kernel code, aren't they anyway enhancing the
kernel ?
Never denied
On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Mayuresh mayur...@acm.org wrote:
No, because the fact that their business depends on Linux is known. And
for the same reason, I'd not call MS as key contributor just based on
numbers as how much they depend on Linux is clear as well.
Linux is one of the
On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 07:02:28PM +0530, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote:
On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Mayuresh mayur...@acm.org wrote:
No, because the fact that their business depends on Linux is known. And
for the same reason, I'd not call MS as key contributor just based on
numbers
On 04/05/2012 08:14 AM, Mayuresh wrote:
You might patch a thing n times just because it broke n times, does not
make you a better contributor than someone who contributed fewer times
though with better quality and functionality. Just the count is not a
measure of intent.
Patching something n
http://www.cio.in/news/microsoft-counted-key-linux-contributor-245792012
Just numeric illusion I suppose.
Mayuresh
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On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Mayuresh mayur...@acm.org wrote:
http://www.cio.in/news/microsoft-counted-key-linux-contributor-245792012
Just numeric illusion I suppose.
Why? If they contributed those many changes to the kernel, then so be
it - they deserve to counted as a contributor. It is
On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 12:59:39PM -0600, Kaustubh Gadkari wrote:
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Mayuresh mayur...@acm.org wrote:
http://www.cio.in/news/microsoft-counted-key-linux-contributor-245792012
Just numeric illusion I suppose.
Why? If they contributed those many changes to the
On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 8:14 AM, Mayuresh mayur...@acm.org wrote:
No problems with that. (Look I am not a stereotype MS basher.) All that I
mean is the numbers do not necessarily indicate _intent_ to contribute.
This is an interesting way of putting it. The numbers for everyone
would indicate
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 8:44 PM, Mayuresh mayur...@acm.org wrote:
On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 12:59:39PM -0600, Kaustubh Gadkari wrote:
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Mayuresh mayur...@acm.org wrote:
http://www.cio.in/news/microsoft-counted-key-linux-contributor-245792012
Just numeric
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