On Fri, 19 Sep 2008 22:23:53 +0200, Peter Köhlmann wrote:
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> ____/ Peter Köhlmann on Friday 19 September 2008 10:58 : \____
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>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>>>> ____/ Peter Köhlmann on Friday 19 September 2008 10:48 : \____
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>>>>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>>>>>>> ____/ Peter Köhlmann on Friday 19 September 2008 05:53 : \____
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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
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>>> 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
>>>>
>>>> I've found some really nice explanation of this with some pictures:
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> http://dustinkirkland.wordpress.com/2008/09/18/whats-behind-gregkhs-latest-rant/
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>>>
>>> Ah yes. That explains why Novell/SuSE is doing more than 70 times the
>>> number of patches. Or Red Hat more than 100 times the patches.
>>>
>>> It is all a big Novell/MS conspiracy...
>>>
>>> Roy, please don't treat me as stupid as DumbFullShit or Hadron Quark
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>> It shows you just the kernel though.
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> Then please don't treat me like an imbecile with links like that.
Ok.
Next time maybe Roy will leave the links out.
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