On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 8:11 PM, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30 2008, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: > > > There is nothing that requires it, no. But then, we are not > talking about requirements, we are talking about whether Ubuntu fits > into the free software ecosystem, instead of leeching off it. >
How you can define free software ecosystem as just developing and coding ?, I don`t really seems the point here, According to me Free Software Ecosystem is much much more than that. > > The intent is not to narrowly compare commercial free software; > the idea is to see if Ubuntu does indeed fit the model of a good free > software citizen. > The level to which Ubuntu has brought Free OS I see at as a true Free sofware citizen. Please try coming out of *code* mentality and see more sight of a development ecosystem. > > They do not report bugs, and they do not pass their fixes > upstream -- which is worse. As a specific example, fixes to my > code ought to being fed back to me (ucf, kernel-package, etc) -- just > like I feed back changes to my upstream using _their_ preferred means > of communications. > > The way things with changes are that if you make changes, > you pass them to the upstream developer, using their preferred means of > communication: that mean you use their mailing lists, their bug > tracking system, rebasing the changes to hteir release, and not mixing > in your own rebrancding changes or changes upstream made that you > cherry picked into one giant diff kept behind a locked door in the > basement with the words "Beware of the leopard" on the locked door. > Crazy idea , That means if i want to start a company or make a new OS , I need to go through 1000 bugzilla looking at bug fixes and putting my quality time there , Not practical > > Yes. Launchpad is not free. > Can you download the propieratery distribution link of Launchpad ? Pass me the link if you find it >> Isn't there a commitment from Canonical to open source it? Why don't >> you go ask other companies provide online services to the community to >> open source their server software? Quite a few of those come to mind! > > All of the server software Debian uses to provide services > (including debbugs) are free software. > And that makes Ubuntu evil, Cmmon ! > > That they lie about contributing back to Debian, hen they do not. What makes you think that, Look at mark`s blog and you will find various posts explaining. Or look at mails above it`s well defined by Parthan -- Thanks and Regards Gaurav Mishra Linux User #348873 http://gauravmishra.info/blog "When i can run , i will run , When i can walk , i will walk, When i can crawl , i will crawl. But i will not stop moving forward" _______________________________________________ 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/
