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Why are so many Linux projects on Microsoft GitHub? Shouldn't they all move to Codeberg? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Sure, I know a lot of projects have been on GH since before MS bought it, but they've owned it for quite a while now, so we really should be seeing better migration out by now, no?

Codeberg is nonprofit which seems more in the spirit of the Linux ecosystem overall. GH is for-profit...

EDIT: All right, all right, I've gotten schooled. Thank you, O wise ones; I didn't realize how much Microsoft literally depends on Linux, among other things. I will proceed to shut up.

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[–] 31 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (11 children)

Arguably the biggest contributor to the Linux ecosystem is Red Hat, a for-profit company that offers its technologies to the Israeli military among other things. The biggest contributor to the Linux kernel is Red Hat, while the second biggest is Meta. The Linux ecosystem is not inherently nonprofit!

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  • [–] 17 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Wow I went to fact check that claim and it's actually no exaggeration. Here is the AP article.

    Google and Amazon provide cloud computing and AI services to the Israeli military under “Project Nimbus,” a $1.2 billion contract signed in 2021, when Israel first tested out its in-house AI-powered targeting systems. The IDF has used Cisco and Dell server farms or data centers. Red Hat, an independent IBM subsidiary, also has provided cloud computing technologies to the Israeli military, while Palantir Technologies, a Microsoft partner in U.S. defense contracts, has a “strategic partnership” providing AI systems to help Israel’s war efforts.

    Crazy to see Palantir, Google, Microsoft mentioned alongside ...Red Hat.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

    Why do you make the argument that Red Hat is the biggest contributor?

    Searching Linux contributor breakdown by organization puts them tied for 3rd at ~7%.

    https://insights.linuxfoundation.org/project/korg/contributors?timeRange=past365days&start=2025-06-19&end=2026-06-19

    https://commandlinux.com/statistics/linux-kernel-contributors-lines-of-code-statistics/

    Don't get me wrong. Intel leading the corporate contributions is worse. lol

    All-time contributions are led by Red Hat at 15%. Many top organizational contributors guilty of profiting from the genocidal industrial complex. Maybe TempleOS was the true alternative.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Pardon, I remembered it so from a graph I saw a few months ago. Perhaps I misremembered, or perhaps things changed since then

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    You were right. Red Hat leads all time.

    All the major organizational contributors are guilty of profiting from genocide. TempleOS might be the one true alternative.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    This is also a reason why some are against RedHat distributions (eg Fedora) or products (systemd, pulse audio). If you don’t like to support the company and have an alternative, take the alternative.

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