On 2008-09-19, Peter Köhlmann <peter.koehlmann@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> ____/ Peter Köhlmann on Thursday 18 September 2008 22:49 : \____
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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.
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