On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Chris Henry <[email protected]> wrote: [..] > > Umm. Yeah. Which part of that is a rebuttal? He only questions the > background of Greg Hartman. He didn't rebutt the numbers. (And btw, I > know a company who have a total of 15 kernel contributors and are now > ranked in top 20.) > > I'm sure Canonical has contributed a lot to Linux popularity no doubt. > But many of the geeks in the open source community are more interested > in contrib back to the source tree. That's probably why Canonical was > flaked upon by these guys.
P.S. Do read the comments in the blog post you just mentioned. Half of them seem to agree with me (and few with him): ruel24: ". . . Mandriva is doing the very same thing you outline Canonical is doing - making something primarily for the home/small business desktop. It contributes to the kernel and is a small company. So there is no excuse why Canonical can’t do the very same thing. I know Mandriva isn’t on the same level of contribution as Red Hat or Novell, but it’s there. Second, part of the beef with Canonical is that they spend so much of their resources marketing Ubuntu, yet don’t give all that much back to the development of Linux as a whole. Part of the reason Ubuntu has the popularity it has is that Canonical markets the heck out of it. So why aren’t they spending more of their resources on development? There are lots of distros out there that don’t give anything back at all. I use a small distro that can’t afford to develop for the kernel, KDE, Gnome, or anything else. But a distro the size of Ubuntu, that reportedly spends about 10 million a year in development and marketing, could at least spend part of that giving back to those that make it posssible at all." mutluinek: "However, your argument that “Greg’s ‘Linux ecosystem’ seems a bit unfairly limited” given that “Canonical and Ubuntu actively contribute to GNOME and KDE” is not overly convincing. To me, the contributions to Gnome and KDE seem minimal. There are a few Canonical developers, for example Ridell who works on KDE, but they contribute very little. To me, they seem largely absorbed in Ubuntu-only projects. If you disagree, please feel free to explain what contributions Canonical employees actually made/make to Gnome and KDE." No further rebuttals to these posts from the author. Cheers, -- Chris [email protected] +65 9755 3292 http://www.google.com/profiles/chrishenry.ni A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? _______________________________________________ Slugnet mailing list [email protected] http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet
