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dingleberry@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Pretty sure all big tech companies already have engineers on payroll for this specific reason. Intel, Microsoft, Google, Amazon have SWEs working on the kernel, networking, even DEs for their own needs and integrations.

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CriticalMiss@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
And yet still the maintainers don’t want to maintain 6 yo kernels because it’s cumbersome and an unpaid position.

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- nous@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Unpaid? A lot of kernel devs do get paid, especially the core ones that would be looking after this stuff.
  
  75% – The share of all kernel development that is done by developers who are being paid for their work.
  
  pingdom.com/…/linux-kernel-development-numbers/
  
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