9 Jul
2021
9 Jul
'21
8:36 a.m.
On 7/8/21 11:13 PM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote:
This being said, things have changed, and Microsoft is now - amongst other things - the most important contributor to the Linux kernel in sheer terms of lines of code.
I don't think that's true.
Microsoft has, infrequently, appeared in the top 5 for specific releases. Mostly, as I understand it, those were due to large dumps of Hyper-V related code. Overall, Microsoft doesn't appear to be active in the Linux kernel, though they do have a large number of Open Source projects of their own.
In general, Intel and Red Hat seem to be pretty consistently the top two corporate contributors to the Linux kernel.