On 2008-09-19, Peter Köhlmann <peter.koehlmann@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> ml2mst wrote:
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>> 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".
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>>>>>> 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
>>>
>>> That may be so. It's being discussed in some other sites at the moment.
>>
>> Even if they haven't contributed much to the kernel, they have
>> contributed quite a lot to overall usability and acceptance of GNU/Linux.
>
> That may well be so.
> But so have others. SuSE for example does a lot for KDE and the video
> drivers for X. SuSE also did most of the port to AMD64 architecture.
Yes. Suse did.
It's a real shame that Suse doesn't really exist anymore.
>
>> Beside that, the well organized LoCo teams are very friendly and helpful
>> to new users.
>>
>> Me thinks Ubuntu deserves credit for that.
>>
>
> They certainly do. Nonetheless some critic is warranted
It's just a typical sort of cherry picking troll.
Anyone competent to do kernel programming should be embarrased
at the thought of presenting that sort of fallacy as a serious argument.
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