Re: [SLUG] Biggest Corporate Contributions to Free Software

[Dean Hamstead <zort@nospam.penrithcity.nsw.gov.au>]

Where does sourceforge/va come into it? I mean geez, i call that
a contribution ;)

Redhat are probably right up there... suse puts money into alsa
and others i believe, and im not sure about turbo =\

transmeta let linus work linux on the job, i mean geez ;)

Dean

Jeff Waugh wrote:
> 
> Who has made the biggest corporate contribution to the development of Free
> Software? A bit of a mini-poll... The sarcastic can call it "Putting Your
> Source Code Where Your Money Was."
> 
> There are two categories, and I've started off with a few nominees:
> 
> Corporate Development of Free Software
> --------------------------------------
> 
> 1) Existing and Initial Release (contributions to existing Free Software,
>    and software initially released by this company as Free Software).
> 
>    - Red Hat: Many and varied software packages (good examples please).
> 
>    - Eazel: Nautilus, Gnome.
> 
>    - Trolltech: KDE, Qt.
> 
>    - Ximian: Nautilus, Gnome.
> 
>    - Many Linux Companies: Kernel.
> 
> 2) Released Proprietary Software (contributions by this company in the form
>    of released proprietary software code).
> 
>    - SGI: XFS and more.
> 
>    - SAP: SAPdb.
> 
>    - Trolltech: Qt.
> 
> Please add more!
> 
> - Jeff
> 
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