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RE: LPC: Fitting into the kernel ecosystem

RE: LPC: Fitting into the kernel ecosystem

Posted Sep 18, 2008 22:37 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

> 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).


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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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