Article title: contributions of the Linux ecosystem and Canonical companies. Linux is a technology channel of the IT lab in China. Including desktop applications, Linux system management, kernel research, greg Kroah-Harman, a Linux kernel developer working on Novell, talked about the Ubuntu release developer Linux/lpc_2008_keynote.html "target = _ blank> at the linux plumbing Conference. canonical's contribution to the Linux ecosystem, it is illustrated that the contribution of Canonical is almost insignificant: 100 patches are donated to Linux kernel, accounting for 0.01% of the total number, and 79th of the most popular versions (the second is Red hat, fifth, Novell); donated 1 patch to the GCC compiler, accounting for 0.3%; donated 10 patches to X.org, accounting for 0.0466% ..... greg KH's report was quickly criticized. Canonical's Matt Zimmerman said that his linux-ecosystem/"target = _ Blank> There are several major problems: wrong numbers; strange points of view; no prejudice. Dustin Kirkland, another Canonical employee, said he ignored some data: Canonical has only 130 employees worldwide, while Novell has 4100, and IBM has more than 386,558; canonical has been established for only four years, and Novell has been in existence for 29 years. it cannot be compared in terms of income.
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