[vezzy-fnord]

Well, the bulk of it de facto comes from corporate contributors: http://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/infographics/who-w... (the Linux Foundation itself being a corporate consortium).

Not that such a thing isn't practically inevitable for a project the scale of the Linux kernel.

[mricon]

Correction: The Linux Foundation is a 501(c)(6) non-profit consortium.

[xai3luGi]

Aren't 501(c)(6) organisations called "trade associations"?

[vezzy-fnord]

True. My expression was unwieldy, I meant that its board members were largely representatives of corporate entities (about 185 of them, ostensibly).