Re: "For 2008 media will create Red Hat-Ubuntu war"

[Jonathan Roberts <jonathan roberts uk googlemail com>]

Thanks Rahul, it all looks like it's interesting and should be useful at
some point in the future :) Anybody got any ideas on how we can make use
of this info? Maybe in the proposed Press Kit and the history section
even?! 

Best wishes,

Jon

> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RedHatContributions and in the references. 
> People have done various studies on which vendors contribute how much to 
> the Linux kernel in particular and Red Hat in usually by a large margin 
> the leading contributor. That would probably be the same for GTK and 
> GNOME though I don't know of anyone doing any formal analysis. Then 
> there are other key pieces like Glibc, GCC and on more desktop neutral 
> stuff like HAL, DBus, Cairo, NetworkManager etc.
> 
>  From the volunteer community, there are a good number of people who 
> contribute to various upstream projects.  A few examples,
> 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BryanSullivan (Mercurial upstream. Refer 
> http://lwn.net/Articles/153990/  for a interesting detail).
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/HansdeGoede
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KevinKofler
> 
> I am pretty sure there are several dozen more contributors such as these.