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curl -sL 'https://www.kernel.org/doc/linux/MAINTAINERS' | grep -ci redhat

The fact that their employees can work on a large part of the Linux ecosystem during work hours makes a huge difference too. I often come across people from redhat experimenting, like implementing screen sharing in wayland.

I've heard that they've been known to buy up stuff like Ansible for example, and then release source code. In ansible's case it was AWX, but I wish I had some better examples to mention. Maybe someone else can fill me in on some company red hat has purchased only to release their product source code to the public.



Not all of redhats contributions are from @redhat.com domain, its not uncommon for people to commit from their personal addresses.

I can think of a companies that redhat has bought ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat ), but the ones that i think got opensourced are:

- Sistina GFS - Netscape directory server - Permabit (Dedupe I think)

There are likely more but these are the ones that I've messed with and they opened source.


curl -sL 'https://www.kernel.org/doc/linux/MAINTAINERS' | grep -i "@redhat" | grep -v "L:" | sort -u | wc -l


150 out of 3873. Certainly noteworthy. Some other commercial companies:

     curl -sL 'https://www.kernel.org/doc/linux/MAINTAINERS' | egrep -o '<.*@.*>' | sed 's/<.*@//; s/>$//;' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n

     23 ti.com
     24 foss.st.com
     27 vmware.com
     28 huawei.com
     36 bootlin.com
     36 mediatek.com
     41 chromium.org <- Google, right? --einpoklum
     43 analog.com
     47 suse.com
     48 amd.com
     48 samsung.com
     49 arm.com
     49 marvell.com
     49 microchip.com
     49 nvidia.com
     54 google.com
     61 nxp.com
     76 broadcom.com
     84 linux.ibm.com
     87 linux.intel.com
    140 redhat.com
    157 linaro.org
    158 intel.com




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