On Tue, Sep 30 2008, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 September 2008 20:36:02 Arun SAG wrote:
>> yeah sure..sorry for that.......By the way here is the link
>> http://lwn.net/Articles/293906/>
>
> Strange that you quote that article for the accusation about Ubuntu and
> the only takeaway that you had was that "it is not contributing". Maybe
> you have not read the article in full, but it actually presents a quite
> well-balanced view on those accusations.
Right. Ubuntu is popular. It has brought people into using
Linux. It has a community that improves Ubuntu. It is a neat OS, that
is user friendly. No dispute there.
But popularity does not make for a good free software citizen --
it is, after all, something that requires you to improve not just your
code, but help feed the changes upstream so _others_ also benefit. That
is where Ubuntu fails.
It is said that all the users are testing the software. What is
the point of having testers when the benefit is not passed on upstream
to benefit everyone? That is the critical point in Greg's talk. Ubuntu
efforts benefit Ubuntu. They are not close source, but unlike the rest
of the free software world, they make no effort to feed any changes
back upstream.
manoj
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