On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 10:04:51AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> That's because "contributor" has different connotations to "originator",
> and many people did not like the associations between themselves and Ubuntu
> that "contributor" conjured up.

Exactly my point; there are differences of opinion within the Debian
community on this point and others.

> Why didn't Ubuntu also make loud noises about how Linus or RMS are
> contributors to Ubuntu?  There's a lot more of their work in there than a
> lot of Debian developers.  I'm sure RMS would love to be associated with
> Ubuntu as a contributor.

Debian has a much more direct and special relationship to Ubuntu than Linus
or RMS; I'm sure you can recognize that.

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 - mdz


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