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LPC: Fitting into the kernel ecosystemLPC: Fitting into the kernel ecosystemPosted Sep 18, 2008 7:44 UTC (Thu) by davidw (subscriber, #947)In reply to: LPC: Fitting into the kernel ecosystem by gregwilkins Parent article: LPC: Fitting into the kernel ecosystem
"Free riding happens with open source, news at 11". It would be great if Canonical poured even more of Mark Shuttleworth's money into various projects, but I think they're doing a pretty fine job in terms of making a product that is winning a lot of converts to Linux and open source. If they do less kernel work and more work on the distribution, isn't that simply taking advantage of the open source model? It's the concept of "comparative advantage": concentrate on what you do best.
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Comparative advantage Posted Sep 19, 2008 18:34 UTC (Fri) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954) [Link] Clarification of the economic principle of comparative advantage: it isn't "concentrate on what you do best"; it's "concentrate on what you do most better (than others do it)" So even if Canonical can submit kernel patches better than it can distribute Linux, and even if Canonical can submit kernel patches better than anyone else, and even if Canonical can't distribute Linux as well as others, it may still be best for everyone if Canonical concentrates on distributing Linux. What you compare is the difference between Canonical's and others' patch-submitting ability and the difference between Canonical's and others Linux-distributing abilities.
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