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ALT LinuxALT LinuxPosted Sep 15, 2004 7:41 UTC (Wed) by angdraug (subscriber, #7487)In reply to: Bruce Perens: the Linux colonel talks (vnunet) by gvy Parent article: Bruce Perens: the Linux colonel talks (vnunet)
ALT Linux was two years into this model before RH and SuSE started scratching their heads in a visible manner. There is significant difference, though. In Fedora's case, most of the work is done by Red Hat, while company tries to present it as a community project. In ALT's case, most of the development is done by the community, while company tries to present the product as its own achievement. Ironically, ALT Linux has only recently run into the same problem with this model as Red Hat: a product that is developed by a community, but controlled by a single commercial entity. It took two years and an unpleasant trademark controversy for community to notice the conflict inherent in such situation. Exactly the problem UserLinux is attempting to solve. Last glibc troubles also enjoyed "fixed 3 years ago" status statement. Not a fact to be proud of, actually. This particular fix (IIRC borrowed from OWL) received a well-deserved bashing from LWN: keeping important fixes to yourself and not propagating them upstream where they belong is not considered a good practice in the FLOSS world.
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