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>Thats because Linux is not a community driven effort with volunteers sending patches. Of course it is. Find something broken and submit your fix. Try that for
by drill_sarge 13y ago
>Thats because Linux is not a community driven effort with volunteers sending patches.
Of course it is. Find something broken and submit your fix. Try that for NT Kernel.
Also it is true that a lot of GNU/Linux devs (it's not limited to the kernel) are paid by big companies. But there are a lot of volunteers who do this in their spare time and if they do a good job they may be hired by someone who pays them to do it full time. thats how I got my job.
- ksk 13y agoMy point was that commercial investment has resulted in minimizing any gap that existed between the two. If the majority of the work on Linux was done by unpaid volunteers working in their free time then Linux would have remained an obscure hobbyist OS. So yes, Linux is not community driven. Its totally commercial-interest driven. There is nothing wrong with that.
- wnight 13y agoThe company I work at employs a few open source devs and we usually hire people who are already doing things we want, but we just want more of, or to have our use case a bit better supported. We don't really get to dictate what they code,we just pick people who are already, to scratch their own itch, coding what we need. So yes, there is a lot of paid work, but it's got a very individual character to it compared to my job where theoretically I could be coding anything a customer had convinced sales we needed.