[Info-vax] CRTL and RMS vs SSIO

[chris]

On 10/15/21 19:24, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 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

Thanks for the link, add flesh to the bones...

Chris