On Wed, Oct 01 2008, Gaurav Mishra wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 9:33 PM, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> And if you think that the Free software awareness Ubuntu has brought
>>> doesn`t qualify in being in Free software ecosystem , Then my friend
>>> you are wrong , Because then you bring to the conclusion that "FSF has
>>> no meaning of existence even"
>>
>> No, I don't think that Ubuntu is a good player in the free
>> software world, no. Ubuntu is all about making ubuntu better. That
>> helps some Ubuntu users, and is ano at all bad. But Ubuntu contributes
>> little to the rest of the free software world; and no matter how good
>> Ubuntu is for Ubuntu users, that does not change that.
>>
>>> Will love to know *specifically* were i am wrong !
>>
>> You think Ubuntu being good for Ubuntu users is all that matters
>> to be a good free software citizen.
>>
>
> Then let me define the basic of Free software for you. Free Software
> is all about freedom and everybody is free to scratch their own back
> and make the code open source so that everyone can download and reuse
> it. Ubuntu is doing exactly that.
Sure. But that is free software. Ubuntu is mostly free software,
no dispute. Ubuntu also does not play well in the free software
ecosystem. That is a different thing. I think you fail to grasp the
difference between free software and the cosystem in which the creators
of free software live in.
> What Ubuntu is not doing, is spoonfeeding every project the fixes
> which Ubuntu community make. And as Sandip said it`s more than
> infrastructure and resource problem , Rather than intentionally not
> doing it , or in your terms *being evil*
So, Ubuntu takes software from other people, and hoards the
fixes? Sounds evil to me.
Also, the software they write, they keep closed source. Err,
not-free-0sftware, I suppose. Hmm. See where this is going?
> Anybody who thinks that it`s Easy to maintain all fixes in Upstream is
> totally free taking a fork of Ubuntu and start maintaining all updates
> and fixes in upstream , Will love to know how it goes if somebody do
> that
Heck, I do that. But I don't take from Ubuntu. Ubuntu takes from
me, and others like me. And we feed patches and bugs upstream, unlike
Ubuntu.
manoj
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