David Neary released a preview of his report about Gnome’s contributors: GNOME Census.
It’s a very interesting document that states, for examaple, that more than 70% of the contributions come from people beind paid to work on Gnome. Check it, it’s worth reading.
But what I’d like to point out it’s a post (rant?) by Greg DeKoenigsberg: Red Hat, 16%. Canonical, 1%.
I don’t like flames, because it’s very hard to get something interesting from that kind of improductive Internet discussion; but this time is different and I guess it’s worth reading. I don’t know if it’s because there are some good level participants, but I must confess I’ve learned a couple of things and it made me think about other couple or so.
The number of comments it’s growing fast, so I recommend you to wait until it’s settled. It will be great if Greg writes another post with the conclusions, wouldn’t it?
Update: the flame it’s being epic ;). There’s a good post from Jono (let’s say point of view of Canonical): Red Hat, Canonical and GNOME Contributions.
Late update: there’s a reply from Mark Shuttleworth (owner of Canonical): Tribalism is the enemy within. I must confess I’m disappointed by this post, I was expecting a different kind of reply from Shuttleworth. In fact, I think his comments in the different threads about this story are way better.
There’s a follow up from Greg: It’s not about tribalism, Mark.
