On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Joshua D Doll <joshua.d...@gmail.com> wrote: > Saphirus Sage wrote: >> >> Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> >>> >>> http://video.linuxfoundation.org/video/1069 >>> >>> I found it quite interesting that even Gentoo beat Canonical in the >>> amount of patches contributed upstream... >>> >>> >>> >> >> Good find, I actually didn't know about E-Trade using Gentoo servers. I >> don't think it should be too surprising that Gentoo would contribute >> more patches than Conical, as until today, I'd only actually heard of >> one of them. >> >> >> > > This video brought up an interesting question by my friend (an ubuntu user). > How would one go about getting Canonical or the ubuntu community to change > their practice of not contributing fixes back upstream? Without having to > change distributions.
I was sure I'd read something about Shuttleworth saying they were going to start doing upstream fixes as it was one of their biggest critisisms, and a quick google showed me this: http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2008/09/canonical-to-fund-upstream-linux-usability-improvements.ars I haven't actually watched the linked video yet (as at work), but I think my link is still on topic. > --Joshua Doll > >
