75% of Linux code now written by paid developers

digibucc · Feb 2, 2010

good point r9, hadn't thought of that part

too true...

pr0n Inspector · Feb 4, 2010

Novell is owned by MS? Am I in the wrong universe? :wtf:

Easy Rhino · Feb 4, 2010

pr0n Inspector said:
Novell is owned by MS? Am I in the wrong universe?

apparently not fully owned, but enough that MS can tell Novell what to do all the time.

[I.R.A]_FBi · Feb 5, 2010

Kreij said:
I guess I don't even understand why this is news worthy.
TPU is a website that give you the latest news and information ... for free !
But some members of the staff are compensated for their effort.
Does that somehow make it less viable or less trustworthy?

Your call.

Clement · Feb 16, 2010

kid41212003 said:
http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/17365/1/

http://apcmag.com/linux-now-75-corporate.htm

This doesn't make much sense at all...the writer is suggesting that we would rather not pay for a product that WORKS!

Melcar said:
People tend to associate Linux with an OS, like say Fedora or Ubuntu, which by and large are community efforts. However, Linux is the kernel itself, and lots of people depend on a working and well maintained Linux kernel. Firms like Intel, AMD, nvidia, HP, among others, are constantly contributing code to the kernel and have developers on their payroll who work on Linux.

Not to mention the contributions of computers such as Road runner. :respect:

r9 said:
Yes software is free but to find some one to set it up for you costs money. Microsoft is trying to convince us that if you buy their software with just the plain logic you could set it your self.

If you are a Microsoft engineer this may be true.

Next thing you know we'll have an amendment where people can sue claiming ignorance... :laugh:

gregzeng · May 30, 2010

The comparison is with Android, OS X, M$ Window$ operating syatems, which are usually considered 100% paid code-hackers.

Wikipedia says that OS X comes from BSD, which comes from UNIX. Linux is also derived from Unix.

The poor quality of Linux apps (coding, usability, range, flexibility & depth) is not because of the Op sys, but the Enterprise-only focus of Linux.

Linux has no equivalent to Dragon Naturally Speaking, CIVILIZATION 4 (human evolution simulator), Omnipage (OCR 99% accurate) nor Servant Salamander (most powerful file manager EVER) - my most used apps).

So Linux is for Wikipedia-editing, web browsing & messaging IMHO.

Easy Rhino · May 30, 2010

gregzeng said:
The comparison is with Android, OS X, M$ Window$ operating syatems, which are usually considered 100% paid code-hackers.

Wikipedia says that OS X comes from BSD, which comes from UNIX. Linux is also derived from Unix.

The poor quality of Linux apps (coding, usability, range, flexibility & depth) is not because of the Op sys, but the Enterprise-only focus of Linux.

Linux has no equivalent to Dragon Naturally Speaking, CIVILIZATION 4 (human evolution simulator), Omnipage (OCR 99% accurate) nor Servant Salamander (most powerful file manager EVER) - my most used apps).

So Linux is for Wikipedia-editing, web browsing & messaging IMHO.

linux is for server administration, web hosting, audio and video production, large scale image rendering...the list goes on. just because it doesnt do what you need it to do doesnt reduce it wikipedia editing. :roll:

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75% of Linux code now written by paid developers

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