JEDIDIAH wrote:
> On 2008-09-19, Peter Köhlmann <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
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You are wise, witty, and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading
this sort of trash.
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