"Linux is Built by Volunteers" is a Myth For most modern Kernel releases, over 80% of commits come from people paid to do the work.

Exactly! The bigger myth is that open source volunteerism is enough to create all that people need in the computing world. The reality, not even close.

Please be more kind to the paid devs from hyperscales such as Meta pushing things like systemd while blocking what the average desktop user would actually benefit from. 😭

Lunduke acting like he’s cracked open a conspiracy by discovering that corps pay for kernel development is hilarious. He treats basic, decades-old enterprise open-source economics like a shocking exposé, completely ignoring that everyone else moved past this revelation ages ago.

I really enjoy your take on this. Your nice, slow and calm explanation of facts drives the lunatic left mad. They've tried to appropriate Linux ( like they appropriated the Rainbow ) , they haven't because you and me and millions of others ignore them and go on about our business. The lunatic lefty He-She's just crave attention. They base their existence on attention and this methodical explanation of facts makes their skin crawl. They've already lost and society is rocketing beyond them and will never stop. Keep it up, my friend!

As a guy who worked for Oracle Operating Systems and Virtualization organizations for many years, I can confirm.

The volunteers fix the mistakes from the corporates.

"Linux" and "the kernel" are two different things. Just sayin'

YES. The bulk of the volunteers in #FreeBSD work on maintaining the ports collection, which can be as simple as small updates to three files and may be mostly automated.

That explains why it works fine

"It's just a myth! ... a myth ... myth" "yeth??"

In principle, this isn't really a bad thing. It just means Linux is more the product of a traditional co-op; it's those that invest and work on the product are also its users.

Pareto distribution strikes again.

idk, there's a lot of people in the wings who don't get a slice of the pie.

Totally true. I really don’t know why people insist on the contrary.

Arguably the companies are volunteering their employees work

Oh wow. This is new to my ear

if there's way to use ade in bsd, i gonna use bsd

probably most of the successful projects have some form of funding.. People need to eat ;)

Now a days sure, it started with volunteers, and now AI will substitute these "paid" employees....