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no, but most cloud providers are not opensourcing their contributions to linux.

• cthalupa 8y ago
  Is that really true? The big three cloud providers all have commits to the Linux kernel: ~/linux   master ● $ git log --author=amazon --format='%h %s%n %ad, %an <%ae>' --date=short | grep @amazon | wc -l 206 ~/linux   master ● $ git log --author=microsoft --format='%h %s%n %ad, %an <%ae>' --date=short | grep @microsoft | wc -l 1825 ~/linux   master ● $ git log --author=google --format='%h %s%n %ad, %an <%ae>' --date=short | grep @google | wc -l 11283
  • dirkgently 8y ago
    Good on Google. Besides the kernel contributions, Google has a long list of open source projects: https://opensource.google.com/projects/list/featured https://opensource.google.com/projects/list/featured For all the hates Google gets on HN, they have been at the forefront of supporting OSS.
    • palunon 8y ago
      Google develops Android. It's in their best interest that their changes to the kernel get mainlined... The internal APIs of the kernel tend to change a lot, and Linus doesn't really care about out of tree breakage.
      • chupasaurus 8y ago
        That's how userland Android is.
    • omegabravo 8y ago
      https://opensource.microsoft.com/ https://opensource.microsoft.com/ https://aws.github.io/ https://aws.github.io/ https://opensource.fb.com/ https://opensource.fb.com/ https://netflix.github.io/ https://netflix.github.io/ https://uber.github.io/ https://uber.github.io/ https://opensource.apple.com/ https://opensource.apple.com/ This list is not nearly exhaustive, but my main point is Google is hardly the outlier here. Good on all the developers pushing for open source so much. The industry is in a much better place than it was 25 years ago.