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Re:IBM acquires Red Hat by cthalupa on Sunday October 28, 2018 @04:40PM (#18323021)
Is that really true? The big three cloud providers all have commits to the Linux kernel:

~/linux   master ● $ git log --author=amazon --format='%h %s%n %ad, %an <%ae>' --date=short | grep @amazon | wc -l 206

~/linux   master ● $ git log --author=microsoft --format='%h %s%n %ad, %an <%ae>' --date=short | grep @microsoft | wc -l 1825

~/linux   master ● $ git log --author=google --format='%h %s%n %ad, %an <%ae>' --date=short | grep @google | wc -l 11283

Re:IBM acquires Red Hat by dirkgently on Sunday October 28, 2018 @05:21PM (#18323278)
Good on Google.

Besides the kernel contributions, Google has a long list of open source projects: https://opensource.google.com/projects/list/featured

For all the hates Google gets on HN, they have been at the forefront of supporting OSS.

Re:IBM acquires Red Hat by omegabravo on Sunday October 28, 2018 @11:05PM (#18324752)
https://opensource.microsoft.com/

https://aws.github.io/

https://opensource.fb.com/

https://netflix.github.io/

https://uber.github.io/

https://opensource.apple.com/

This list is not nearly exhaustive, but my main point is Google is hardly the outlier here.

Good on all the developers pushing for open source so much. The industry is in a much better place than it was 25 years ago.

Re:IBM acquires Red Hat by palunon on Sunday October 28, 2018 @08:07PM (#18324023)
Google develops Android. It's in their best interest that their changes to the kernel get mainlined... The internal APIs of the kernel tend to change a lot, and Linus doesn't really care about out of tree breakage.
Re:IBM acquires Red Hat by chupasaurus on Monday October 29, 2018 @02:52AM (#18325502)
That's how userland Android is.