Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 10:13:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 10:13:27 -0500 Received: from h66n2fls31o276.telia.com ([213.64.188.66]:12542 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 10:13:26 -0500 Message-ID: <3E1C4215.5080306@gorling.se> Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 16:21:57 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Stefan_G=F6rling?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020830 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org CC: stefan@gorling.se Subject: A humble request for help Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3145 Lines: 90 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/