[ale] Major contributors to the Linux kernel

[Steve Brown]

On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Lightner, Jeff <jlightner at water.com> wrote:

> Going back to the discussion a couple of weeks ago about whether Canonical
> (Ubuntu) is “contributing” or a parasite as some implied I notice they don’t
> appear in the list.   Since I don’t know details about the individuals
> listed I can’t say none of them work for Canonical but it seems if they did
> the company would have shown up in the list.
>

Canonical has a handful of kernel developers. But you are correct, Mark has
said that kernel development is not a key focus of Ubuntu. I think Mark
address your concerns pretty well in one of his blog posts [0]

[0] http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/517

-Steve Brown
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