Re: study concerning firms contribution in the linux kernel

Re: study concerning firms contribution in the linux kernel

[Matteo Croce]

Il Thursday 24 January 2008 09:29:48 Urs Lerch ha scritto:
> Hi,
> 
> As a PhD student at the Technical University of Berlin (Germany) I'm
> analyzing the logs of the linux kernel traffic. As I'm focusing on the
> firms contribution, I'm very much interested in who's employed by whom.
> As a matter of fact it is not that easy to do the matching and I would
> appreciate it a lot if you could help me with my study. You would do me
> a great favour if you could respond to the following questions:
> 
>   (1) Are you doing your contributions to the linux kernel
>        [ ] paid by a for-profit-organization
>        [ ] paid by a non-profit-organization
>        [ ] unpaid as academic
>        [ ] unpaid (non-academic)
>   (2) What's the name of your organization?
>   (3) Do I have to keep the data private?
> 
> I won't analyze the contributions by person but by the companies as a
> whole and will do some comparisons. So you're name or mailaddress won't
> be written in my study.
> 
> Thanks a lot!
> 
> Kind regards,
> Urs
> 
> 
   (1) Are you doing your contributions to the linux kernel
        [ ] paid by a for-profit-organization
        [ ] paid by a non-profit-organization
        [X] unpaid as academic
        [ ] unpaid (non-academic)
   (2) What's the name of your organization?
	Nothing
   (3) Do I have to keep the data private?
	No

Cheers,
Matteo Croce