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We should update mental models of who works on open source accordingly [corporations vs individuals] I would like to see some numbers on how much code labeled

by chubot 2y ago

We should update mental models of who works on open source accordingly [corporations vs individuals] I would like to see some numbers on how much code labeled "open source" (as opposed to having more of a free software ideology) is contributed by corporations and their employees, versus individuals I think it's been very clear for 20+ years that the largest open source projects have corporate origins, or big corporate contributors, as I mentioned here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35941074 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35941074 (Linux kernel, LLVM, Firefox, Chrome, MySQL, JVM, VSCode, Ubuntu, Red Hat, etc.) But I wonder what happens when you look at medium size projects and libraries, like those in PyPI, NPM, the Go or Rust package ecosystems, etc. Are corporations contributing closer to 20% of the code, or 80% of the code? I think there is a lot of code contributed by medium size companies, e.g. in the PHP ecosystem there seem to be many little companies

pjmlp 2y ago
Even the Linux kernel adoption only took really off, and started to endager the UNIX ecosystem, when the likes of IBM and Oracle saw a benefit in doing so, "1998: Many major companies such as IBM, Compaq and Oracle announce their support for Linux. The Cathedral and the Bazaar is first published as an essay (later as a book), resulting in Netscape publicly releasing the source code to its Netscape Communicator web browser suite. Netscape's actions and crediting of the essay[68] brings Linux's open source development model to the attention of the popular technical press. In addition a group of programmers begins developing the graphical user interface KDE. Linux first appears on the TOP500 list of fastest supercomputers.[69] The ARM port (initiated in 1994[70][71]) is merged" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Linux https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Linux

by chubot 2y ago

pjmlp 2y ago

Even the Linux kernel adoption only took really off, and started to endager the UNIX ecosystem, when the likes of IBM and Oracle saw a benefit in doing so, "1998: Many major companies such as IBM, Compaq and Oracle announce their support for Linux. The Cathedral and the Bazaar is first published as an essay (later as a book), resulting in Netscape publicly releasing the source code to its Netscape Communicator web browser suite. Netscape's actions and crediting of the essay[68] brings Linux's open source development model to the attention of the popular technical press. In addition a group of programmers begins developing the graphical user interface KDE. Linux first appears on the TOP500 list of fastest supercomputers.[69] The ARM port (initiated in 1994[70][71]) is merged" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Linux https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Linux