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Right; I just mentioned the kernel because it's the only thing I know of with consistent stats on what companies are contributing (and I mostly skip over those
by mook 10y ago
Right; I just mentioned the kernel because it's the only thing I know of with consistent stats on what companies are contributing (and I mostly skip over those anyway). I just don't know anybody who publishes the same for, say, Gnome. It probably doesn't help that the boundary between the various projects need for a desktop Linux are blurrier.
- digi_owl 10y agoAnd lets not forget the Torvalds policy of "we do not break user space". This makes it hard to get new stuff into the kernel, because any interface between the kernel and userspace that the new stuff expose will from that day on be set in stone. The desktop devs on the other hand seems all too willing to break existing interfaces, treating them more like internal code than something exposed to third parties.