What's the point of this article? Of course any talented kernel developer will get hired to do just that. I think a more important statistic would be how many of those paid developers contributed to the kernel or other open source projects before getting hired to do it. This would be the only tangible way to determine what percentage of those paid programmers came out of the open source community.
//edit I just realised it's an article from a MS related source and that explains a lot i guess
Depends really, but a lot of the important work is done by employees of the aforementioned companies.Originally Posted by saaya
interesting... but what exactly did those devs add to the kernel? seriously important functionality to improve linux overall, or did they add features and support for hardware and software of the companies they get paid by?
Lol? You are joking right?the linux organization seems to be doing a good job at managing the kernel and the development...
its a shame that they still lag behind technology wise, and didnt make good use of the netbook revolution which had a huge potential at getting the masses hooked on linux, but they are definitely improving... while microsoft seems to have lost its direction
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