On Tue, 9 May 2000 ">hirsch@zapmedia.com wrote:
> Linus started Linux as a student. After he left school he went into
> private industry (specifially, Transmeta, which is funded in part by
> Paul Allen who is the second largest shareholder of Microsoft stock).
> He probably had a government stipend as a student, but has never ben
> on a linux grant. That certainly is not why he opened the source.
>
> Most of the rest of the kernel was developed similarly. In recent
> years many of the contributors have been funded by the likes of RedHat
> (e.g. Alan Cox), SuSE (e.g. Andrea Arcangelski-that's not quite right)
> (and many more companies). None of these companies are funded by any
> government grants that I know of.
>
> Finally, there are some parts that have been funded by the
> governement. NASA has funded a lot of netwrok card drivers and
> Beowulf development. CMU probably had an NSF grant for the Coda
> filesystem. But I don't know of any core feature of the kernel that
> was funded by government funds.
Also note that this is *not* true for the *BSD line of Unix, which
(originally; much of that code has long since been replaced in the *BSDs,
but it still lives on elsewhere) was largely driven by research grants.
later,
chris
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