Aiven, one company cloud data, open source πλατφόρμας, ανέλυσε πρόσφατα ποιος κάνει τι με τα projects ανοιχτού κώδικα στο GitHub. Διαπίστωσαν ότι οι κορυφαίοι συνεισφέροντες ανοιχτού κώδικα ήταν όλες μεγάλες εταιρείες τεχνολογίας: Amazon Web Services, Intel, Red Hat, Google και Microsoft.
Aiven looked at three metrics in the GitHub archives. These were the number of contributors, the repositories (projects) they contributed to, and the number of commits made by the contributors. All of this was calculated using Google Big Query analysis of PushEvents on public GitHub data. The company found that Microsoft and Google were in first place. Red Hat is in third place, followed by Intel and then AWS, just ahead of IBM.
Η Red Hat ακολουθεί στενά πίσω και αυτή τη στιγμή συνεισφέρει περισσότερα commits από την Google, με 125.012 το τέταρτο τρίμηνο του 2022 σε σύγκριση με τα 94.961 commits της Google. Η Microsoft προηγείται και των δύο, με 128.247 commits. Ωστόσο, όσον αφορά το προσωπικό που εργάζεται στα έργα, η Google πρωτοπορεί με 5.757 άτομα σε σύγκριση με τα 5.513 της Microsoft και τα 3.656 της Red Hat...
Aiven isn't the only company to notice that the biggest tech companies are writing the code. Jonathan Corbet, editor-in-chief of Linux Weekly News (LWN), he found for Long Term Support releases Linux Kernel from 5,16 to 6,1 that just 7,5 percent of the code came from individual developers.
His article states:
"Η καινοτομία βρίσκεται στην καρδιά της κοινότητας ανοιχτού κώδικα, αλλά χωρίς την ισχυρή δέσμευση από τις εταιρείες, ολόκληρο το system θα δυσκολευτεί."
Right, but that doesn't give you the anonymity or "freedom" that Linux is hyped about.
With the exception of imagining Tails & Kodaci maybe…. although I'm not too sure about them either.
you're anonymous to everything that doesn't have telemetry, as far as the companies or community writing the code is concerned. That's not the problem. linux is reliable, the issue is how you use it on the internet and the cloud. If you want a really secure linux try it Qubes, everything is sandboxed, even your internet connection.
Basically the above os needs skills that not many have. But there are plenty of Linuxes that wouldn't risk their reputation by tracking end users. See debian.
Αρα το παραμύθι οτι το Linux σε αποδεσμεύει απο την Google, Microsoft, Aws & Big Brother Πάει περίπατο…..
After all, we all think we have freedom....but in reality we have the freedom that ""they"" want us to have
at least in open source the code is open and you can read what they write