More than half of Windows machines are INFECTED with malware

Chan Chung Hang Christopher christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk
Wed Oct 7 14:45:35 BST 2009


>>> OPINION: Canonical contributes more to Linux as a complete O/S than
>>> Google does.
>>>       
>> Greg spoke at some length on the subject of Canonical's contributions
>> to both the kernel and Linux as a complete OS in his keynote at Linux
>> Plumbers Conference in 2008.  The conclusion of the keynote (several
>> paragraphs before the final four slides) paints an enlightening
>> picture of Canonical's role in the "Linux Ecosystem."
>>
>> The video of the keynote is on google video, here's a transcript:
>> http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/lpc_2008_keynote.html
>>
>> Greg works for Novell, but if he himself were ranked among the
>> companies for his own personal contributions, (he's the USB subsytem
>> maintainer, IIRC) He would be #24, with 11 times as many contributions
>> as Canonical over the same time period. He's #15 among individual
>> contributors.
>>     
>
> Certainly, he would be, but I disagree with his definition of the Linux OS.  
> He misses the desktop, which is clearly Canonical's focus.  He does, though, 
> include udev, which while not a Canonical project is maintained by an Ubuntu 
> dev.
>   


Which Canonical employees work on the desktop? I note that Fedora is now 
using Startup so that is another contribution too.



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