Red Hat, the biggest contributing vendor to Xorg

[Rahul Sundaram]

Hi,

Along with the Linux kernel, another interesting tidbit.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=x_server_contributors...

"There were eight major software vendors that turned up from our 
analysis and that included Apple, Debian, FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD, 
Gentoo, Mandriva, Novell, Red Hat, and Tungsten Graphics. The biggest 
software company contributing to the X server has been Red Hat"

"In third place for the number of commits is Adam Jackson, an employee 
of Red Hat. Adam has just been committing to X.Org since 2004 but he 
represents over 9% of the total workload. Adam Jackson is serving as the 
X.Org 7.4 release manager."

Rahul

[Jef Spaleta]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Rahul Sundaram
 wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Along with the Linux kernel, another interesting tidbit.
>
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=x_server_contributors...

Ah look the laypress is starting to pay attention.  The level of
contribution to upstream projects matters!  Let's see if the take the
next step and use their editorial soapboxes to start being critical of
companies who aren't contributing back to the projects they depend on.
A spotlight on companies who are benefiting from the work of open
source projects but aren't support those very same projects would be a
gloriously wonderful thing to see.  I would almost call that the birth
of a completely new type of laypress..a laypress dedicated to
protecting the long term interests of the open ecosystem.  That would
be a laypress I could get behind.

Want to take any bets on which person in the press picks on this
information as it relates to Shuttleworth's call on upstream project
to sync release schedules to match Canonical's needs and does an
unscientific inquiry as to exactly how much upstream involvement
Canonical is actually providing to a number of important projects
which Canonical relies on heavily.    I think that would be a
fascinating article to read.... it would even border on legitimate
investigative journalism.

-jef