I just finished reading the report on the development of the Linux kernel.  The study reported on such items as;  who is developing the source code, who pays those developers, how many lines of code are added, changed and deleted per release.    The detailed report can be found at Linux Development Report .  Give it a read not so much for the sheer number of numbers, but for the way companies can work together.

The new report is written by original authors and kernel developers Jonathan Corbet and Greg Kroah-Hartman, and the Linux Foundation’s Amanda McPherson. It is released by the [...]

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