Red Hat vs. SUSE vs. Canonical Contributions To The Mainline Linux Kernel Over The 2010s

[Michael]

the colors are all wrong. suse should've been green, redhat red and canonical purple

Colors are auto-generated but patches welcome.

[mikelpr]

the colors are all wrong. suse should've been green, redhat red and canonical purple

[k1e0x]

That was my first reaction when I heard the news, but historically IBM has been a major Linux player and a big contributor, having committed more code than even Google. Also IBM POWER is the largest non-x86 server market, with IBM pushing RHEL on POWER pretty hard, even more than their own AIX from what I've seen. I can see where this acquisition makes business sense for IBM. Lets all just be thankful that HPE didn't buy Red Hat!!

It isn't the owner, it's the size of the influence. You want a situation with lots of equal players competing. When you have a situation where one group has a dominant control they will exert that control and extort and abuse that position. It happens in every market, it's just the nature of it.

[torsionbar28]

RedHat (IBM) owning Linux is a bad thing....

That was my first reaction when I heard the news, but historically IBM has been a major Linux player and a big contributor, having committed more code than even Google. Also IBM POWER is the largest non-x86 server market, with IBM pushing RHEL on POWER pretty hard, even more than their own AIX from what I've seen. I can see where this acquisition makes business sense for IBM. Lets all just be thankful that HPE didn't buy Red Hat!!

[Vistaus]

Red Hat employees: 13,400 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat)
Suse employees: 1750 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUSE)
Canonical employees: ~650 (I work here, but Wikipedia says 443).

Obviously, I'm biased but might be nice to do some of these numbers per employee as well.

Exactly! Red Hat might have more employees, but how many of them are contributing? It's not like Red Hat only has software devs (that have to contribute), they have many other divisions as well.

[Michael]

Canonical developers often use ubuntu.com as the e-mail address.

That's only 120 commits over 10 years.

[Bestia]

Canonical developers often use ubuntu.com as the e-mail address.

[Britoid]

Canonical do GREAT stuff on GNOME.

Do you ever shut up about GNOME?

I use GNOME and I like it, but I don't feel the need to talk about it 24/7.

[144Hz]

Canonical do GREAT stuff on GNOME.

[bregma]

... that Canonical has never made great community contributions is known.

It is known, Khaleesi. All the true believers know this.