Three ways for Ubuntu to help developers

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Wouldn't a straight forward way to help developers who develop software for the ubuntu ecosystem be to pay them?

gnome contributions (as % of commits)

Red Hat 16.30%

Novell 10.44%

Intel 2.57%

Sun 2.04%

Nokia 1.42%

Canonical 1.03%

The numbers are even more telling when you factor in the other major projects as well. The numbers for the kernel in particular do a great job of showing which organizations are actually driving Linux to desktop adoption.

Isn't Ubuntu dropping Gnome?

How do those percentages relate to size of the companies/gross profits from Linux related operations?

No. Ubuntu is dropping Gnome shell.

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