Greg Kroah Hartman on the Linux Kernel

Update: They request more open drivers.

Greg Hartman above nicely explains how the Linux Kernel (which is used by most linux distros) development seems to excel and grow.

More importantly he makes note of his amazement that Google is almost not involved at all [ok, we skip Andrew ]. Especially since Google code development is increasingly dependent on the Linux Kernel, this should flash some red lights at Google? Shouldn’t it? Google Android?

Moreover, other competitors of Google are paying the + 75% of developers who do change the Linux Kernel. Enjoy.

For abstract:

Abstract – Greg Kroah Hartman on the Linux Kernel
The Linux Kernel, who is developing it, how they are doing it,
and why you should care.

This talk describes the rate of development for the Linux
kernel, and how the development model is set up to handle such a
large and diverse developer population and huge rate of change.
It will detail who is doing the work, and what companies, if
any, are sponsering it. Finally, it will go into why companies
like Google, and any other that uses or depends on Linux, should
care about this development. Lots of numbers and pretty graphs
will be shown to keep the audience awake.

Speaker: Greg Kroah Hartman
Greg Kroah-Hartman is a Linux kernel maintainer for the USB,
driver core, sysfs, and debugfs portions of the kernel as well
as being one half of the -stable kernel release team. He
currently works for Novell as a Fellow doing various kernel
related things and has written a few books from O’Reilly about
Linux development in the past.