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click here. Member since:  "[q]Point being: you may not
necessarily see them inter-acting directly with a lot of
projects, but that's by design. They contribute primarily to the
extremely slow moving Debian distribution, which then may or may
not take those contributions back to the original project.  It's
not what I see, it's the statistics that people have gathered
and that show Canonical way below many companies. In fact, I
recall a single colleague contributing more patches to GNOME
than the whole Canonical.  All those statistics track
contributions to source projects - e.g. contributions to the
Linux Kernel. They don't track contributions between
distributors - e.g. Canonical contributing back to Debian. Check
your sources. [/q]  Bullshit, you don't know what you are
talking about.  A patch from lands in Ubuntu, then would be
pushed to debian, then it would be applied upstream, and then it
would show in the statistics for Canonical; debian doe