On Tue, Sep 30 2008, Gaurav Mishra wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 8:21 PM, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
> GPL doens`t says that when you use some code , Go spoonfeed the
> changes back to developers, The code is open all there , And the point
> made by canonical not to make it upstream for each project is valid
> and practical. No way some company go behind 1000`s bugzilla to track
> what`s happening
Yes, it is not a GPL requirement. What Ubuntu is doing is not
illegal. It merely is the behaviour of a bad free software citizen.
I think Redhat does a better job of feeding patches upstream --
I have seen things appear in PAM/OpenSSH that started their life as
patches in the red hat CVS repo.
Frankly, I do not buy the statement that Ubuntu can't do what
Fedora does. I think perhaps it is to Ubuntu's competitive advantage to
be the only distro with the fixes they create?
manoj
--
There are 3 kinds of people: those who can count & those who
can't. Unknown source
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.golden-gryphon.com/>
1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C
_______________________________________________
ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected]
http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
