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In the case of e.g. the Linux kernel, many contribute back because maintaining a private fork is unsustainable.
by tgsovlerkhgsel 3y ago
In the case of e.g. the Linux kernel, many contribute back because maintaining a private fork is unsustainable.
- wizzwizz4 3y agoI can't think of any other example than the Linux kernel; and even then, plenty of people neglect to mainline their drivers.
- dagmx 3y agoBlender receives lots of corporate development. GCC as well up till when clang arrived.
- wizzwizz4 3y agoI've seen people maintain their own, incompatible forks of both of those, sometimes for quite a long time. No company maintains a fork of the entire Linux kernel in private: the closest thing is RHEL's additional hardware support, but that's basically just drivers.