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And still most majority of kernel hacking is done by private people in their free time. No mention of virtually every other software I use everyday. Think of dr
by crocowhile 16y ago
And still most majority of kernel hacking is done by private people in their free time. No mention of virtually every other software I use everyday. Think of drivers, often made and improved AGAINST a company will, by reverse engineering closed sources.
Money have nothing to do with open source. Sure they help, but if a project is not followed it's not because of money incentives.
- nicolas314 16y agoThat might have been the case 10 years ago but not today. According to G. Kroah-Hartmann, more than 80% of kernel contributors are full-time paid developers, the remaining 20% being spread among free-time contributors and companies who do not want to disclose their names. People contributing to gcc, mozilla or OpenOffice are all full-time paid developers funded by a company to do so.
- bluekeybox 16y agoMoney is not everything, but it has a lot to do with everything, including open source. Linux would still have been a hobby operating system if a number of big players (Sun, IBM, etc) didn't get on the Linux bandwagon in the early 2000s.