Red Hat, Novell, IBM Among Top Contributors to Linux Development
by Darryl K. Taft
None
The category “none” is responsible for 35,663 changes to the Linux kernel, or 18.9 percent of the total work. “None” represents developers who are known to be doing this work on their own, with no financial contribution happening from any company.
Red Hat
Red Hat is responsible for 23,356 changes to the Linux kernel, or 12.4 percent of the total work.
Novell
Novell is responsible for 13,120 changes to the Linux kernel, or 7 percent of the total work.
IBM
IBM is responsible for 13,026 changes to the Linux kernel, or 6.9 percent of the total work.
Unknown
The category “Unknown” is responsible for 12,060 changes to the Linux kernel, or 6.4 percent of the total work. According to the Linux Foundation, “There are a number of developers for whom we were unable to determine a corporate affiliation. … With few exceptions, all of the people in this category have contributed 10 or fewer changes to the kernel over the past three years, yet the large number of these developers causes their total contribution to be quite high.”
Intel
Intel is responsible for 11,028 changes to the Linux kernel, or 5.8 percent of the total work.
Consultants
Consultants were responsible for 4,817 changes to the Linux kernel, or 2.6 percent of the total work.
Oracle
Oracle was responsible for 4,367 changes to the Linux kernel, or 2.3 percent of the total work.
Renesas Technology
Renesas Technology was responsible for 2,621 changes to the Linux kernel, or 1.4 percent of the total work.
The Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation was responsible for 2,488 changes to the Linux kernel, or 1.3 percent of the total work.
Academic
Academics were responsible for 2,464 changes to the Linux kernel, or 1.3 percent of the total work.
SGI
SGI was responsible for 2,450 changes to the Linux kernel, or 1.3 percent of the total work.
Fujitsu
Fujitsu was responsible for 2,293 changes to the Linux kernel, or 1.2 percent of the total work.
Parallels
Parallels was responsible for 2,226 changes to the Linux kernel, or 1.2 percent of the total work.
Analog Devices
Analog Devices was responsible for 1,955 changes to the Linux kernel, or 1 percent of the total work.
Nokia
Nokia was responsible for 1,896 changes to the Linux kernel, or 1 percent of the total work.
HP
Hewlett-Packard was responsible for 1,854 changes to the Linux kernel, or 1 percent of the total work.
MontaVista
MontaVista was responsible for 1,821 changes to the Linux kernel, or 1 percent of the total work.
Google was responsible for 1,565 changes to the Linux kernel, or .8 percent of the total work.
AMD
Advanced Micro Devices was responsible for 1,518 changes to the Linux kernel, or .8 percent of the total work.
Freescale
Freescale was responsible for 1,501 changes to the Linux kernel, or .8 percent of the total work.