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0 pointsfolkrav6y ago0 comments

Projects like Linux are "community" projects in the sense that there is not a single company backing it, sure. However, for Linux, only 7.7% of contributions were made by unpaid developers as of this 2016 report[0].

I have a hard time calling this a "community" project when the community is paid by corporations. Don't get me wrong, I'm not really complaining, as a project the size of a commercially viable operating system kernel is hardly a project that could be viable without corporate backing IMHO.

[0] https://thenewstack.io/contributes-linux-kernel/

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chupasaurus6y ago

Don't forget that most of the kernel's codebase are drivers and some of the most impactful additions were made by employees of corporations (on top of my mind - cgroups and namespaces by googlers, and not only as a base for containerization).

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[0] https://thenewstack.io/contributes-linux-kernel/

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