Except many of those contributions never land upstream.
Hence why we usually with the cloud provider distros.
Example, what powers DGX OS isn't fully available to GNU/Linux users other than a binary blob.
> Example, what powers DGX OS isn't fully available to GNU/Linux users other than a binary blob.
What do you mean? Are they violating the GPL by not releasing the modified source?
That’s the wrong way to look at it. Instead, look at how much does land upstream. Linux moves at an incredible pace.
Edit: BTW the figure I cited are contributors to mainline.