On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 2:28 AM, Rohan Garg <rohang...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > Hi Parin > >> Sorry Rohan but these days Ubuntu is a different story, especially for >> the past few years, the project is going a different way. >> >> IMHO, in a quest to replace Windows it has gone the Windows way by >> introducing malicious features like Spyware[1] in it. >> > > Whoa, let me just stop you right there for a moment. Ubuntu is the > name of the whole project but also the name of some products/flavors . > So this is clearly aimed towards a particular flavor. Just wanted to > clarify that before proceeding. > >> So personally I don't use it or recommend it to anyone, moreover for me >> Debian Release party was more of community event, to celebrate the >> release of a universal GNU/Linux OS which has been there for a long >> time, almost 20 years, with most of things taken care by volunteers >> while Ubuntu is more of the Canonical thing now. So IMHO I don't think >> we can have a release party together, for them. >> > > I strongly disagree with the statement that Ubuntu is merely `a > Canonical thing now`. There are various flavors of Ubuntu like Kubuntu > / Xubuntu / Lubuntu which have a strong community side attached to it. > I find it offensive that you chastise the entire community for the > actions of a company that is just one aspect of the whole Ubuntu > ecosystem. Not taking sides, but Canonical provides alot of tools, > infrastructure and manpower that allows all these flavors to come to > fruition. Not to mention that alot of foundations work done in Ubuntu > finds its way back into Debian. > >> Don't want to start a Debian v/s Ubuntu debate, here because IMHO they >> are incomparable, with the kind of purposes for which they are developed. >> > > Neither do I, everyone is entitled to their opinions, however, it > seems to me you have a very limited view of what Ubuntu is. Now that > I've (hopefully) widened your view a bit, would you still be open to > the idea of having a Ubuntu + Debian release party? I strongly believe > that both Ubuntu and Debian need each other in order to survive and > that there should be more friendly relationships between the two.
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