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It’s no secret that Red Hat is a leading contributor to the development of open source software. In fact, as noted by a couple of recent surveys, Red Hat is the leading corporate contributor to the most important open source project of all, the Linux Kernel.
Last week, the Linux Foundation published a report about Linux kernel development and we were recognized as the leading corporate contributor with over 9,000 changes contributed, or 11.2 percent of the total. And we were also recognized a few months ago by Linux Weekly News as the most active company contributor both by changesets (12 percent) and by lines changed (12.7 percent) in the development of the 2.6.23 kernel. The results for these two reports are summarized in the following table:
| Top 6 Corporate Contributors | |||||
| Linux Foundation | Linux Weekly News | ||||
| Company Name | Changes | % of total | Company Name | Changes | % of total |
| None | 11,594 | 13.0% | Unknown | 1,180 | 19.0% |
| Unknown | 10,803 | 12.9% | Red Hat | 744 | 12.0% |
| Red Hat | 9,351 | 11.2% | None | 559 | 9.0% |
| Novell | 7,385 | 8.9% | IBM | 507 | 8.2% |
| IBM | 6,952 | 8.3% | Novell | 421 | 6.8% |
| Intel | 3,388 | 4.1% | Intel | 184 | 3.0% |
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