75% of new Linux code written by commercial companies
The ideals of free development in practice have to be adjusted to the real world. For some, it will be shocking statistics that the founder of LWN.net and one of the Linux kernel developers Jonathan Corbet made public at the recent Linux.conf.au conference.
It turns out that 75% of the new Linux code is offered by commercial companies, that is, the authors are corporate programmers who receive a salary for their work on Linux. Another 7% of the code does not have a specific authorship. And only 18% of the Linux code is written for free: they say that this code is better and is executed faster.
Jonathan Corbet analyzed all the new code in the Linux kernel, added for the period from December 24, 2008 to January 10, 2010. During this time, the kernel was updated from version 2.6.28 to 2.6.32, and a total of 2.8 million lines of code were added as part of 55.000 changes. About 7,000 lines of code are added daily.
Among companies, the most active Linux developers are Red Hat (12%), Intel (8%), IBM and Novell (6% each), Oracle (3%). Interestingly, some of these firms are tough competitors in the market. However, this does not prevent them from doing the common thing.
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It is also strange that, among the main contributors, there is no Google, whose systems are almost entirely based on Linux. However, this company prefers not to return their achievements back to the core.
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It turns out that 75% of the new Linux code is offered by commercial companies, that is, the authors are corporate programmers who receive a salary for their work on Linux. Another 7% of the code does not have a specific authorship. And only 18% of the Linux code is written for free: they say that this code is better and is executed faster.
Jonathan Corbet analyzed all the new code in the Linux kernel, added for the period from December 24, 2008 to January 10, 2010. During this time, the kernel was updated from version 2.6.28 to 2.6.32, and a total of 2.8 million lines of code were added as part of 55.000 changes. About 7,000 lines of code are added daily.
Among companies, the most active Linux developers are Red Hat (12%), Intel (8%), IBM and Novell (6% each), Oracle (3%). Interestingly, some of these firms are tough competitors in the market. However, this does not prevent them from doing the common thing.
')
It is also strange that, among the main contributors, there is no Google, whose systems are almost entirely based on Linux. However, this company prefers not to return their achievements back to the core.
via apc
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/81586/
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