Re:A “Perfect Storm” Moment for Multibillion-Dollar Open Sou...
by davidw on Wednesday March 26, 2014 @08:25AM
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> > The first wave of open source leaders, including Red Hat, relied almost entirely on the community to build their products.
> I'm not sure this statement is entirely true
Red Hat is a good open source community citizen, and has contributed tons back, without a doubt. However... out of the total lines of code they distribute, if you start to consider Apache and the GNU tools, and various libraries, I wonder what the percentages look like? I think all things considered, it would reflect well on Red Hat for all they have done, but still likely be a small-ish percentage.
> I'm not sure this statement is entirely true
Red Hat is a good open source community citizen, and has contributed tons back, without a doubt. However... out of the total lines of code they distribute, if you start to consider Apache and the GNU tools, and various libraries, I wonder what the percentages look like? I think all things considered, it would reflect well on Red Hat for all they have done, but still likely be a small-ish percentage.