[–] trotsky 15y ago ↗ Wouldn't a straight forward way to help developers who develop software for the ubuntu ecosystem be to pay them?gnome contributions (as % of commits)Red Hat 16.30%Novell 10.44%Intel 2.57%Sun 2.04%Nokia 1.42%Canonical 1.03% [–] pbhjpbhj 15y ago ↗ Isn't Ubuntu dropping Gnome?How do those percentages relate to size of the companies/gross profits from Linux related operations? [–] ENOTTY 15y ago ↗ No. Ubuntu is dropping Gnome shell. [–] burgerbrain 15y ago ↗ The numbers are even more telling when you factor in the other major projects as well. The numbers for the kernel in particular do a great job of showing which organizations are actually driving Linux to desktop adoption.
[–] pbhjpbhj 15y ago ↗ Isn't Ubuntu dropping Gnome?How do those percentages relate to size of the companies/gross profits from Linux related operations? [–] ENOTTY 15y ago ↗ No. Ubuntu is dropping Gnome shell.
[–] burgerbrain 15y ago ↗ The numbers are even more telling when you factor in the other major projects as well. The numbers for the kernel in particular do a great job of showing which organizations are actually driving Linux to desktop adoption.
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 17.0 ms ] threadgnome contributions (as % of commits)
Red Hat 16.30%
Novell 10.44%
Intel 2.57%
Sun 2.04%
Nokia 1.42%
Canonical 1.03%
How do those percentages relate to size of the companies/gross profits from Linux related operations?