Hi Everyone,
I'm currently working on a thesis investigating how Open Source is
affected by the influence of money and the interests of commercial
companies. As the Linux Kernel efforts is the foundation of many
companies it is interesting to study how their entrance to the scene
have affected the community.
The thesis as well as research papers surrounding it will be released
under the GNU Free Documentation License and as soon as the first drafts
are available they will be published so that the community may comment
upon it.
In order to improve the research, it would be great if you guys could
spend a few minutes on this one. I have included below a list of the
most active persons on this mailinglist during the year 2002. I have
tried to establish their employer as far as e-mail adresses and google
could help me out, but there are lots of unknowns, and probably some
errors too. So please, send me patches.
Also, if you belive that there are others who should be on this list, or
someone who shouldn't please let me know.
If there are someone out there who would be willing to answer some more
detailed questions, such as how long they've been doing Open Source
development as a source of income and how they think it have affected
them and their efforts, please drop me a line. I'd be forever grateful.
I am also very interested in interviewing developers who are major
contributors on their free-time.
Alan Cox,RedHat
Andrew Morton,Moxi.com
David S. Miller,RedHat
Linus Torvalds,Transmeta
Greg Kh,Wirex ?
Jeff Garzik,Mandrake Software
Daniel Phillips,Innominate
Dave Jones,SuSE
Pavel Machek,SuSE
Rik Van Riel,Conectiva
William Lee Irwin III,IBM
Rusty Russell,LinuxCare
Robert Love,MontaVista Software
Ingo Molnar,RedHat
Jens Axboe,SuSE
Martin Dalecki,Evision Ventures?
Andrea Arcangeli,SuSE
Christoph Hellwig,Caldera International
Andre Hedrick,SuSe
Bill Davidsen,TMR Associates
Russell King,ARM Ltd
Alexander Viro,RedHat
Keith Owens,SGI
Zwane Mwaikambo,Unknown / Self-financed
Thunder From The Hill,Unknown / Self-financed
Martin J. Bligh,IBM
Vojtech Pavlik,SuSE
H. Peter Anvin,Transmeta
Richard B. Johnson,Analogic Corporation
Andi Kleen,SuSE
Roman Zippel,Unknown / Self-financed
Adrian Bunk,Unknown / Self-financed
Larry McVoy,BitMover
Andreas Dilger,Cluster File Systems, Inc
Eric W. Biederman,Unknown / Self-financed
Denis Vlasenko,Unknown / Self-financed
James Simmons,Transvirtual
George Anzinger,MontaVista Software
Adam J. Richter,Yggdrasil
Anton Altaparmakov,Unknown / Self-financed
Davide Libenzi,Unknown / Self-financed
Andries Brouwer,Unknown / Self-financed
Arnaldo Carvalho De Melo,Conectiva
Benjamin Lahaise,RedHat
Tomas Szepe,Unknown / Self-financed
Randy.Dunlap,OSDL
Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk,Unknown / Self-financed
Rob Landley,Unknown / Self-financed
Trond Myklebust,Unknown / Self-financed
David Woodhouse,RedHat
Best Regards,
Stefan G?rling
On Wednesday 08 January 2003 09:21 am, Stefan G?rling wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I'm currently working on a thesis investigating how Open Source is
> affected by the influence of money and the interests of commercial
> companies. As the Linux Kernel efforts is the foundation of many
> companies it is interesting to study how their entrance to the scene
> have affected the community.
>
> The thesis as well as research papers surrounding it will be released
> under the GNU Free Documentation License and as soon as the first drafts
> are available they will be published so that the community may comment
> upon it.
>
> In order to improve the research, it would be great if you guys could
> spend a few minutes on this one. I have included below a list of the
> most active persons on this mailinglist during the year 2002. I have
> tried to establish their employer as far as e-mail adresses and google
> could help me out, but there are lots of unknowns, and probably some
> errors too. So please, send me patches.
>
> Also, if you belive that there are others who should be on this list, or
> someone who shouldn't please let me know.
>
> If there are someone out there who would be willing to answer some more
> detailed questions, such as how long they've been doing Open Source
> development as a source of income and how they think it have affected
> them and their efforts, please drop me a line. I'd be forever grateful.
> I am also very interested in interviewing developers who are major
> contributors on their free-time.
I am not sure whether I am what you are looking for as I don't get paid to
work on software, but feel free to email any questions you want to ask. Also
see below.
--Brian Jackson
>
> Alan Cox,RedHat
> Andrew Morton,Moxi.com
> David S. Miller,RedHat
> Linus Torvalds,Transmeta
> Greg Kh,Wirex ?
> Jeff Garzik,Mandrake Software
> Daniel Phillips,Innominate
> Dave Jones,SuSE
> Pavel Machek,SuSE
> Rik Van Riel,Conectiva
> William Lee Irwin III,IBM
> Rusty Russell,LinuxCare
> Robert Love,MontaVista Software
> Ingo Molnar,RedHat
> Jens Axboe,SuSE
> Martin Dalecki,Evision Ventures?
> Andrea Arcangeli,SuSE
> Christoph Hellwig,Caldera International
Now at SGI
> Andre Hedrick,SuSe
I think he started his own company
> Bill Davidsen,TMR Associates
> Russell King,ARM Ltd
> Alexander Viro,RedHat
> Keith Owens,SGI
> Zwane Mwaikambo,Unknown / Self-financed
> Thunder From The Hill,Unknown / Self-financed
> Martin J. Bligh,IBM
> Vojtech Pavlik,SuSE
> H. Peter Anvin,Transmeta
> Richard B. Johnson,Analogic Corporation
> Andi Kleen,SuSE
> Roman Zippel,Unknown / Self-financed
> Adrian Bunk,Unknown / Self-financed
> Larry McVoy,BitMover
> Andreas Dilger,Cluster File Systems, Inc
> Eric W. Biederman,Unknown / Self-financed
> Denis Vlasenko,Unknown / Self-financed
> James Simmons,Transvirtual
> George Anzinger,MontaVista Software
> Adam J. Richter,Yggdrasil
> Anton Altaparmakov,Unknown / Self-financed
> Davide Libenzi,Unknown / Self-financed
> Andries Brouwer,Unknown / Self-financed
> Arnaldo Carvalho De Melo,Conectiva
> Benjamin Lahaise,RedHat
> Tomas Szepe,Unknown / Self-financed
> Randy.Dunlap,OSDL
> Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk,Unknown / Self-financed
> Rob Landley,Unknown / Self-financed
> Trond Myklebust,Unknown / Self-financed
> David Woodhouse,RedHat
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Stefan G?rling
>
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Andre Hedrick,SuSe -- the past.
Andre Hedrick, Self Funded.
I am one of the few who have tried to make a business model out of
selling services which strictly promote open source. Contracts where it
is all or nothing and they still have to pay. The services are to write
only opensource drivers for contract. Well that day is coming to an end,
and not by my choice.
If you want the decenting view, I may be your poster child.
Regards,
Andre Hedrick
LAD Storage Consulting Group
On Wed, 08 Jan 2003 16:21:57 +0100
Stefan G?rling <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Greg Kh,Wirex ?
I think GregKH works for IBM.
> > Jeff Garzik,Mandrake Software
And Jeff for RedHat.
> James Simmons,Transvirtual
That is no longer the case. The company went under. Currently I'm
out of work. I can help out.
> I'm currently working on a thesis investigating how
> Open Source is affected by the influence of money and
> the interests of commercial companies.
The main effect is noise on the kernel list.
(Only an idiot reduces his options by using closed
source software when there is an open source
alternative that will do the same job for the same
money or less.)
Regards,
Clayton Weaver
<mailto: [email protected]>
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