top | item 45739448 (no title) n3t | 4 months ago Most (some sources say ~80%) Linux contributors are paid by their employer. discuss order hn newest ekjhgkejhgk|4 months ago I hope that's true. Do you have a source? n3t|4 months ago "About 80% of kernel contributors are paid – by their employer!" -- https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/how-linux-is-buil... (from 2025)Check out "Most active 5.10 employers" table (it's from 2020) on https://lwn.net/Articles/839772/"Seventy-five percent of all kernel development is done by developers who are being paid for their work" -- https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/press-release/the-linu... (from 2012) load replies (1)
ekjhgkejhgk|4 months ago I hope that's true. Do you have a source? n3t|4 months ago "About 80% of kernel contributors are paid – by their employer!" -- https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/how-linux-is-buil... (from 2025)Check out "Most active 5.10 employers" table (it's from 2020) on https://lwn.net/Articles/839772/"Seventy-five percent of all kernel development is done by developers who are being paid for their work" -- https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/press-release/the-linu... (from 2012) load replies (1)
n3t|4 months ago "About 80% of kernel contributors are paid – by their employer!" -- https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/how-linux-is-buil... (from 2025)Check out "Most active 5.10 employers" table (it's from 2020) on https://lwn.net/Articles/839772/"Seventy-five percent of all kernel development is done by developers who are being paid for their work" -- https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/press-release/the-linu... (from 2012) load replies (1)
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Check out "Most active 5.10 employers" table (it's from 2020) on https://lwn.net/Articles/839772/
"Seventy-five percent of all kernel development is done by developers who are being paid for their work" -- https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/press-release/the-linu... (from 2012)