Where does sourceforge/va come into it? I mean geez, i call that
a contribution ;)
Redhat are probably right up there... suse puts money into alsa
and others i believe, and im not sure about turbo =\
transmeta let linus work linux on the job, i mean geez ;)
Dean
Jeff Waugh wrote:
>
> Who has made the biggest corporate contribution to the development of Free
> Software? A bit of a mini-poll... The sarcastic can call it "Putting Your
> Source Code Where Your Money Was."
>
> There are two categories, and I've started off with a few nominees:
>
> Corporate Development of Free Software
> --------------------------------------
>
> 1) Existing and Initial Release (contributions to existing Free Software,
> and software initially released by this company as Free Software).
>
> - Red Hat: Many and varied software packages (good examples please).
>
> - Eazel: Nautilus, Gnome.
>
> - Trolltech: KDE, Qt.
>
> - Ximian: Nautilus, Gnome.
>
> - Many Linux Companies: Kernel.
>
> 2) Released Proprietary Software (contributions by this company in the form
> of released proprietary software code).
>
> - SGI: XFS and more.
>
> - SAP: SAPdb.
>
> - Trolltech: Qt.
>
> Please add more!
>
> - Jeff
>
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