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From: cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross)
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Subject: Re: AI Is Killing Some Legacy Hardware Support
Date: Fri, 1 May 2026 14:01:15 -0000 (UTC)
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In article <69f4705e$0$11451$426a74cc@news.free.fr>,
Stéphane CARPENTIER  <sc@fiat-linux.fr> wrote:
>Le 29-04-2026, Rich <rich@example.invalid> a écrit :
>> I suspect this may reveal how many (most?) kernel maintainers are now 
>> corporate employees rather than volunteers,
>
>Not so long ago I read that at least 80% of kernel contributors were
>paid by societies.

I assume you meant companies, or corporations, or something like
that instead of "societies."  At any rate, I suspect that that
number is low.

>I don't know neither how accurate that is nor where
>the number were coming from. But the rest of the article was serious and
>accurate and the number does make sense to me.
>
>So, I consider it to be a good enough starting point without better
>information.

The days of Linux as the scrappy upstart rebel alliance against
the evil empires of Microsoft and AT&T, refusing to bow down to
the Gods of BSD, are over and long gone.  Linux _is_ the empire
now, and as some are discovering, heavy is the head that wears
the crown.

	- Dan C.