On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 22:21 +0100, Daniel Carrera wrote: > Do you have a reference for this? I was under the distinct impression > that Ubuntu had a good record with Debian because several Ubuntu > developers are Debian developers and they send their changes to Debian > (and Debian can of course refuse them).
Check the debian-devel list over the last couple of months to see some of the discussion on this subject. There are definitely concerns, although how justified they are is uncertain. > > besides I see the opening of the > > Ubuntu foundation as a tentative to oppose the Debian/SPI organization; > > And that's just plain silly. Why is an Ubuntu foundation wrong, > Canonical, Linspire Co, and the other instututions that run Debian > derived distros ok? And why oh why would they want to "oppose" Debian? > First of all, what could you *mean* by "oppose"? And what in the world > could they possibly gain from that? One difference is that Ubuntu is community-based like Debian, rather than commercially-based like Linspire. The reasoning is that Ubuntu wants to take over Debian's position as the source of other distributions, and run things more efficiently than Debian does. Personally, I don't think there's enough evidence to say that Ubuntu wants to takeover in this way, but a lot of people are speculating about its future plans. -- Bruce Byfield 604-421.7177 http://members.axion.net/~bbyfield
