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many developers are Ubuntu users too

Posted Aug 19, 2008 22:22 UTC (Tue) by tridge (subscriber, #26906)
Parent article: In defense of Ubuntu

Like many other free software developers, I'm an Ubuntu user (on several of my machines). That
means that the development efforts I put in are partly built on the work that Ubuntu does. I
haven't contributed directly to Ubuntu, only to some of the packages that it includes, so does
that make me a freeloader? 

I'm delighted that Ubuntu is using the packages I help develop, and I'm also
delighted that other distributions use my code. I presume that the Ubuntu developers feel the
same way, and don't mind me using their distribution without contributing directly to their
packaging efforts. Producing a good distribution is a lot of hard work, and I'm just thankful
that so many people are willing to put that effort in and let me reap the benefits.

Cheers, Tridge

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many developers are Ubuntu users too

Posted Aug 20, 2008 3:55 UTC (Wed) by sbergman27 (subscriber, #10767) [Link]

Cheers to you, Tridge.  I have one slice of pizza left here. (I really do.  It's a Super
Veggie.)  If you want, I could send it parcel post. ;-)

As with a Frank Lloyd Wright building, the support beams in our FOSS community are not always
completely obvious.

many developers are Ubuntu users too

Posted Aug 20, 2008 15:19 UTC (Wed) by liljencrantz (subscriber, #28458) [Link]

That's a very enlightened thing to say. Thanks for a very good comment.