[Info-vax] CRTL and RMS vs SSIO

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 10/15/2021 2:11 PM, chris wrote:
> On 10/15/21 02:07, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
>> On Friday, October 15, 2021 at 12:55:18 AM UTC+13, chris wrote:
>>>
>>> On 10/14/21 01:29, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
>>>>
>>>> There are no such things as “power grabs” in Free software.
>>>
>>> Perhaps, but the amount of money and effort that Red Hat (now owned
>>> by IBM btw) put into Linux means they have disproportionate amount of
>>> influence in the direction of the project.
>>
>> If you want to look at which is the single biggest company that is 
>> contributing to Linux, that would have to be
> Microsoft.
> 
> Well, warning, that may eventually be the kiss of death for Linux.
> What was the saying about uSoft getting involved with other
> companies ?. Something about assimilate and suppress :-). Even more 
> reason to avoid Linux.

The saying was "Embrace, extend, and extinguish".

But don't worry - MS has in some periods release significant
chunks of code to Linux, but in general they are not that big
a contributor.

They did not make top 20 for 5.10:

https://news.itsfoss.com/huawei-kernel-contribution/

They did not make top 20 for 2008-2019 per Linux Kernel History Report 2020.

Arne