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RE: LPC: Fitting into the kernel ecosystemRE: LPC: Fitting into the kernel ecosystemPosted Sep 18, 2008 19:14 UTC (Thu) by lysse (guest, #3190)In reply to: RE: LPC: Fitting into the kernel ecosystem by mmcgrath Parent article: LPC: Fitting into the kernel ecosystem
> Tell yourself whatever lies you have to
I appreciate that your feelings are running strongly here, but after that little outburst I can't take you seriously.
Back on topic: Slackware contribution count, anyone? And unlike Canonical, Slackware sell copies of their distribution. Yet nobody's slagging off Pat Volkerding for freeloading (have they ever done so, even when Slackware was the most popular distro out there?).
This is "tall poppy syndrome" at its worst; if I'm alone in finding it kind of disgusting, then so be it, but I do.
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RE: LPC: Fitting into the kernel ecosystem Posted Sep 18, 2008 19:44 UTC (Thu) by mmcgrath (subscriber, #44906) [Link]
"I appreciate that your feelings are running strongly here, but after that little outburst I can't take you seriously."
And why would you. I've asked for someone to provide numbers, facts. Why do that when they can just attack the person requesting them. ad hominem anyone?
RE: LPC: Fitting into the kernel ecosystem Posted Sep 18, 2008 22:37 UTC (Thu) by lysse (guest, #3190) [Link]
> I've asked for someone to provide numbers, facts.
Maybe so, but the bit I quoted and responded to was
> Tell yourself whatever lies you have to
which is aggressive and rude, and makes your response of
> Why do that when they can just attack the person requesting them. ad hominem anyone?
amusingly ironic (although a little sad).
RE: LPC: Fitting into the kernel ecosystem Posted Sep 18, 2008 23:18 UTC (Thu) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link] OK. I will then politely ask: can anyone provide statistics on how much Ubuntu employees have contributed to Gnome, as compared to other contributors like Red Hat, Novell, and Sun?
RE: LPC: Fitting into the kernel ecosystem Posted Sep 18, 2008 23:48 UTC (Thu) by chromatic (guest, #26207) [Link]
I'm not sure that information would be useful or interesting either, unless there should be some metric of goodness based on an amount of contribution upstream.
In my mind, the question is *does* a project contribute upstream, not *how much* does a project contribute upstream.
RE: LPC: Fitting into the kernel ecosystem Posted Sep 19, 2008 11:19 UTC (Fri) by hppnq (subscriber, #14462) [Link] Ubuntu employees The difference between a company and a distribution is, well, key. Maybe this comes close to answering your question, maybe it is better to go here for the datamining software, download the latest Gnome tarball and answer it yourself.
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