Greg Freemyer said the following on 11/15/2011 12:33 PM:
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Linux Tyro <opensuse.bkn1@gmail.com> wrote:
hi,
I just wanted to confirm something I came to know from somewhere:
"openSUSE/SUSE is having less members in the team(s) developing it as compared to the Fedora/Red-hat team."
Its only a line, I was just seeing it this is correct or not... I don't know but want to know
-- THX --
I think you're missing the boat with this.
First SUSE and REDHAT both have paid staff that develop / maintain / support / take end-user-calls for their respective commercial offerings.
I don't know which one is a bigger staff and as a openSUSE user I really don't care.
More, much more than that! Yes, there are the commercial and commercially supported offerings, but they are really fed from the "open", and even so, the sources to those commercial version of Linux are, unlike Microsoft Windows, open source as well. The real issue is commercial support. But while that exists, there are a couple of things very relevant. First, there isn't a "Linux" company as there is behind Windows and OSX. Its all contributions by people volunteering their time and effort. These are not amateurs. For the most part they are professional programmers employed as professional programmers at Big Name firms. If you look at the contributions at kernel.org you'll see that people at Microsoft and IBM are among those who contribute the most. When it comes down to useful little programs like Perl, Ruby, Python, Tcl or even KDE, a different pattern arises (look to their histories). We are still talking about professional programmers, but there are a lot more individuals coming up with basic ideas or taking responsibility for individual aspects or components. And not everyone has to be a programmer; people doing testing, configuration management, repository management, documentation, artwork and more all have important roles. So no matter how many people work for RedHat or Suse/Novell/whoever the real issue is 'the cast of thousands'. Just like the movies; the names of the stars may be on the poster, but the credits at the end roll on and on, and even so omit the people who work at PL&G, Eastman-Kodak/Fujisu, the street sweepers and garbage collectors ... and mothers and fathers ... -- Nobody will ever win the Battle of the Sexes. There's just too much fraternizing with the enemy. -- Henry Kissinger -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org