That the Linux kernel devlopment gets contributes (in terms of lines of codes) from private companies is not a secret, nor are the names of these companies.
Anyway, given that The Linux Foundation has recently released a report (here from linux.com) containing several statistics about the state of the kernel development, I think it is worth mentioning here those companies that, for whatever reason they have, are contributing, side to side by the independent developers community, to maintain and develop the kernel which is behind our favourite operating system.
The report spans from kernel version 2.6.11 of 2005 to the latest stable 2.6.30 released inJune (the very last version is 2.6.30.5 released 2009-08-16 but that was after the report release).
One thing to notice is that the most part of the modifications are made from a small number of entities among which are independent people and many unknown entities which could be anything (maybe MS disguised people? :D)
There are many more interesting numbers to be read on the documents, like the how the company involvement has progressed since the first kernel release and so on.
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