On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 4:00 AM, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> What is the point of having testers when the benefit is not > passed on upstream to benefit everyone? That is the critical point in > Greg's talk. Ubuntu efforts benefit Ubuntu. They are not close source, > but unlike the rest of the free software world, they make no effort to > feed any changes back upstream. > > Now am sure a lightning is gonna strike you and you gonna become green as a toad!! Have you contributed to Ubuntu? or aware of the development/bug-reporting process in Ubuntu? If not, then let me summarize for you : It clearly says that a bug found in upstream can either be fixed by the developer or be passed upstream - and i personally have done this and also know that along with me thousand others do the same. This is an unfortunate situation in the FOSS world - consolidation and cooperation is something that the FOSS world lacks - attacking different schools of development should be refrained from and the best teachings of all schools should be nurtured(as what Kapil referred to) and cultivated. I am waiting for a true-next-generation OS that would be a mix(+advanced) of the present OS'es and give it for free. A similar behaviour oft seen is the attack on M$ : lets learn from them and also assimilate the best of it in our thought process. M$ rocks for various other reasons and we should truly appreciate(if not respect) them. Venkat _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
