Messages in this thread | | | From | Brian Jackson <> | Subject | Re: A humble request for help | Date | Wed, 8 Jan 2003 09:49:54 -0600 |
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On Wednesday 08 January 2003 09:21 am, Stefan Görling 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 Görling > > - > 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/
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