On 2008-09-19, Peter Köhlmann <peter.koehlmann@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> JEDIDIAH wrote:
>
>> On 2008-09-19, Peter K�¶hlmann <peter.koehlmann@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>>>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>>>>>> Matt Zimmerman, CTO of Canonical, is unhappy with Greg Kroah-Hartman,
>>>>>> one of
>>>>>> | the Linux kernel maintainers, because of Kroah-Hartman's keynote at
>>>>>> | the Linux Plumbers Conference. The keynote, described elsewhere as a
>>>>>> | reworking a June presentation, makes a number of claims about
>>>>>> | Canonical's activity in the community, presenting various tables
>>>>>> | which showed Canonical not making many upstream patches and
>>>>>> | concluding "Canonical doesn't give back to the community".
>>>>>> `
>>>>>
>>>>> Well, they are not, compared to others
>>>>> Novell contributed more than 7000 patches
>>>>> Red Hat more than 11000
>>>>>
>>>>> Well, and Ubuntu? A whopping 100
>>>>
>>>> They are not kernel focused. They sell desktops more than servers.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Irrelevant
>>
>> It's VERY relevant.
>>
>> The kernel tree is not the entirety of what makes up a working Linux
>> system from 1994. Nevermind 2008. Attempting to focus on kernel
>> contributions to the exclusion of all else is at best disengenuous.
>>
>
> Well, do you actually think that Red Hat or Novell/SuSE focused on the
> kernel alone?
> SuSE for example has done more for KDE than the other distros combined
They are essentially IBM and Sun wannabes.
I expect them to act in regard to things outside the kernel in
much the same way that those companies have. It takes a lot more
kernel mojo (than other things) when you are selling yourself as
one of the supported platforms for Oracle.
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