Hi Everyone,
I'm currently working on a thesis investigating how Open Source is affected by the influence of money and the interests of commercial companies. As the WINE efforts is the foundation of companies such as Codeweavers, Transgaming and Lindows, it is interesting to study how their entrance to the scene have affected the community.
The thesis as well as research papers surrounding it will be released under the GNU Free Documentation License and as soon as the first drafts are available they will be published so that the community may comment upon it.
In order to improve the research, it would be great if you guys could spend a few minutes on this one. I have included below a list of the most active persons on this mailinglist during the year 2002. I have tried to establish their employer as far as e-mail adresses and google could help me out, but there are lots of unknowns, and probably some errors too. So please, send me patches.
Also, if you belive that there are others who should be on this list, I've only got one person from Transgaming so far, don't they contribute or are they simply silent on the mailinglist?
If there are someone out there who would be willing to answer some more detailed questions, such as how long they've been doing Open Source development as a source of income and how they think it have affected them and their efforts, please drop me a line. I'd be forever greatful.
The hall of fame: Dimitrie O. Paun,Unknown / Self-financed Alexandre Julliard,Codeweavers Francois Gouget,Codeweavers Eric Pouech,Unknown / Self-financed Andreas Mohr,Codeweavers Sylvain Petreolle,Unknown / Self-financed Andriy Palamarchuk,Unknown / Self-financed Steven Edwards,Unknown / Self-financed Martin Wilck,Unknown / Self-financed Patrik Stridvall,Unknown / Self-financed Uwe Bonnes,Unknown / Self-financed Dmitry Timoshkov,Codeweavers Greg Turner,Unknown / Self-financed Shachar Shemesh,Unknown / Self-financed Dustin Navea,Unknown / Self-financed Tony Lambregts,Unknown / Self-financed Ove Kaaven,Transgaming Bill Medland,ACCPAC Michael Cardenas,Lindows Lionel Ulmer,Unknown / Self-financed Duane Clark,Unknown / Self-financed Vincent Beron,Unknown / Self-financed Marcus Meissner,SUSE Brett Glass,Unknown / Self-financed Lawson Whitney,Unknown / Self-financed Dan Kegel,Unknown / Self-financed Michael Stefaniuc,RedHat