> > I'd say that the 'Canonical' aspect of Greg's talk has over shadowed a > much more pertinent take-away from it - that contributions to the > upstream is a pretty good way to get things done (or, control destiny). > In fact, this message could work out nicely in events where iLUG-D > organizes, participates. <http://www.gutenberg.net> >
The friend who sent me the link of Greg's talk (mis)used his numbers on Canonical to paint a gray picture of the company [Canonical]. My friend's effort in sending me that info and misguiding me was just another example how people twist facts for other purposes. He used Greg's figures to show me that Ubuntu is not worth consideration, as the company behind it is doing nothing. While the discussions on the thread has made certain other things very very clear to me and I am grateful to all those who wrote and explained. As my own conclusion, after reading all those replies, I will be sticking with Ubuntu and see if I can gain expertise on distros which are not controlled by any company. (Please correct me if my interpretations are wrong :-)) I today found a blog posting of Greg where he explains things clearly, which I am sure you all have already read: *One main question that I saw a lot, and was even asked about during my talk, was "what about Canonical's work on the desktop/Gnome/KDE"? I really don't know if they have contributed a lot of effort back upstream on these projects, that wasn't my point here. Remember, this was given at the Linux Plumbers Conference a gathering of developers of the low-level plumbing of Linux. This wasn't a group of desktop developers, so remember the audience that this was addressed to please. If Canonical has contributed a lot to Gnome/KDE, that's great, I'm sure someone will post the numbers soon to verify this. Either way, please remember that this was not the audience that I was addressing. I sat down with Matt the day after my talk, as he described, and hopefully the Canonical kernel developers will work to become more of a valid part of the community, which is what I am sincerely hoping will happen here. Oh, and Amanda, I have given this very same kind of talk to Amazon, a number of months ago, as well as many other companies over the past 1 1/2 years, so it's not like I am ignoring them at all. And this response brings me back to my main point of my talk, which most people seem to have missed as they were upset at me pointing out Canonical's lack of upstream contributions. And that point was, and still is: Developers who are not allowed to contribute to Linux should change jobs!* http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/lpc_2008_law_and_gospel.html Regards Swapnil _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
