More than 80% of Linux kernel development is paid by companies!

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Linux, without any doubts, is the most used technology in the world which is powering the modern IT infrastructure. From drones to space stations; from massive super computers to tiny smart-watches, from mission critical stock exchanges to your printers and routers everything is powered by Linux.

 

It’s everywhere; it’s omnipresent.

 

What makes Linux even more important is the fact that it is also the largest, shared or collaborative technology in the world. It’s being co-developed by thousands of developers from around the globe; It’s the largest open source technology on the planet Earth.

 

Now the question is who is doing all this work? Who is writing all this code, which ‘all of us’ (even if you are a hard core Apple or Windows fan) use without knowing?

The Linux Foundation releases a report every year which tells us who is contributing to this code.

 

There are some interesting figures in the latest report. One of the most interesting finding was that there is a constant decline in the contribution by unpaid developers. The authors of the report noted that unpaid contribution amounted to 14.6% in the 2012 version of this paper, and 13.6% in 2013; now it is 11.8%.

 

An easy conclusion, that I can draw from this, is that the paid contribution is increasing. There is a huge demand for Linux kernel developers and considering the short supply, contributors get hired very easily. So a Linux kernel developer doesn’t remain unpaid for very long. Just get some patches merged and you may have a long line of companies waiting with joining letter.

 

Talking about these corporate contributors, who really are the top dogs? In the latest report Intel remained the #1 corporate contributor followed by Red Hat, Linaro, Samsung, IBM, SUSE, TI, Vision, Google,

 

Rareness among the top 10.

The bigger picture that one can draw from this report is Linux is not an unpaid ‘hobby’, as some opponent would want use to believe. Linux means business!......

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[Guest LilBambi]

Yep, companies see the value of open source as well.