Notably missing from the "Most active employer" list is the company that has the most Linux-based computers in the world.
I wonder how would active employers list look like sans drivers or rather sans vendor specific drivers.
How would an enthusiast developer even begin to contribute code to the kernel? It seems quite a daunting task
This is fascinating but how accurate is this? Because Ping-Ke Shih is credited with the lines related to the rtw89 driver, but looking at their github repo[1] I see no such name in the contributors.
Did Ping-Ke just merge the driver and get credited for it? Or are they behind the lwfinger account?
Hard to tell but I'd like to buy them a beer or two for that driver, my laptop thanks them.
Also interesting to see a fellow Swede Johan Almbladh in the top 5. Apparently this guy is the founder of AnyFi that are trying to deploy Wifi towers in Indonesia. Looking at some of his commits he also works with the Loongson CPU architecture that came out of China many years ago. For a while Richard Stallman was using a laptop with one of those CPUs.
1. https://github.com/lwfinger/rtw89