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Title: Any sources to find percentages on who contributes?
GustyGhost 10 Feb 2018
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I am curious to find any resources that might indicate how much particular groups contribute to Linux development or even just open source software in general these days.

Particularly by either:

- Community

- Academia

- Government

- Corporate

I highly doubt community and volunteers are the leading contributing group anymore. Your thoughts?
Faattori 10 Feb 2018
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LWN regularly does articles about kernel development.

https://lwn.net/Articles/708266/

https://lwn.net/Articles/720336/

https://lwn.net/Articles/731794/
tuubi 10 Feb 2018
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Keep in mind that you can't measure the value of code contributions in lines of code or number of patches. And another point: As long as corporations play by the rules and submit to the same open development process as the volunteers and hobbyists, they are in effect a part of the community. Their motivations might differ, but that's a rather forced separation.
stretch611 10 Feb 2018
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I'm not sure exactly where to go and find the information, but I have read some over time.

IIRC, corporate is actually one of the biggest... and also, iirc, IBM and Red Hat used to be two of the biggest.
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