On 17 January 2012 14:20, Ivan Voras <ivo...@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 17 January 2012 14:49, Igor Mozolevsky <i...@hybrid-lab.co.uk> wrote: >> On 17 January 2012 13:44, Ivan Voras <ivo...@freebsd.org> wrote: >>> On 17/01/2012 07:32, Atom Smasher wrote: >>>> >>>> what percentage of linux devs are on salary to develop linux? >>> >>> Apparently, 3/4: http://apcmag.com/linux-now-75-corporate.htm >> >> Actually, you're misrepresenting the facts: according to the headline, >> 75% of the code came from paid developers, *not* 75% of developers are >> paid... See the difference?.. > > Yes, you're correct.
Actually, I don't think it's cash that's the problem. I think it is more to do with the lack of common goal: the way that releases are perceived, at least by me, are that a bunch of people "play" in current then at some point someone decides to take a "cut" of the current branch and call it a release then work toward making that "release" passable as stable. To illustrate that, I cannot find anywhere on the .org website what core@ see the desirable features of 10.0 to be, or what the committers are working toward. It seems that the "bazaar" model of development is at its worst here: everyone is doing their own thing and at some point someone decides to call it a day and make a release, nobody cares for what they have already done, but only what they want to do in the future, non-committer patches go ignored (no, I don't have a reference) which discourages end-user contribution... I'm very happy to be shown wrong here, btw!.. -- Igor M. :-) _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
