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Ubuntu, security response, and community contributions

Ubuntu, security response, and community contributions

Posted Jul 17, 2008 19:55 UTC (Thu) by khc (subscriber, #45209)
In reply to: Ubuntu, security response, and community contributions by willy
Parent article: Ubuntu, security response, and community contributions

To be fair, I think you also need to take into account the time the entities have existed.


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Ubuntu, security response, and community contributions

Posted Jul 18, 2008 12:00 UTC (Fri) by willy (subscriber, #9762) [Link]

I don't think that's a big factor.  Remember, we only have git history going back to
2.6.12-rc2, which was April 2005.  Warty Warthog was released in October 2004, so Ubuntu's
existence predates the git history by over 6 months.  I don't know how long Canonical existed
before they made their first release of Ubuntu, but I'm pretty sure it did not leap
fully-grown and armed from the head of Mark.

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