On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 9:24 AM, Parthan SR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [1] Canonical is not Ubuntu. Canonical is only a sponsoring agency for > Ubuntu, which is trying to get back the money it puts by offering > support and service for Ubuntu. It also sponsors for a small portion of > people associated with Ubuntu. It also pays for the resources that > Ubuntu community uses for the project.
What happen if some big company starts supporting Ubuntu project? What can be stand of Canonical in that situation. Its very nice that Canonical is supporting project. I am wondering its still some control factor somewhere which is not inviting more contributor as it should be. > [3] If at all, Canonical decides not to support Ubuntu then am sure that > a major portion of the contributing community will make an effort to > create resources and run the project. Indeed it will shake us to the > roots, but we will try our best not to fall. I am sure any good opensource project will run without support of any particular company as it is. Agree. The question to Canonical was Linux Kernel Contribution from its kernel developers. See, http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/lpc_2008_keynote.html -- Cheers, Kartik Mistry | 0xD1028C8D | IRC: kart_ Homepage: people.debian.org/~kartik Blog.en: ftbfs.wordpress.com Blog.gu: kartikm.wordpress.com -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
