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Who wrote 2.6.33

Posted Feb 18, 2010 7:12 UTC (Thu) by DYN_DaTa (guest, #34072)
Parent article: Who wrote 2.6.33

Once again: Canonical, Where Art Thou?. Oh, well ...

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Who wrote 2.6.33

Posted Feb 18, 2010 9:27 UTC (Thu) by mangoo (guest, #32602) [Link]

They have far more contributions in userspace, which is also needed.

Who wrote 2.6.33

Posted Feb 19, 2010 0:52 UTC (Fri) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263) [Link]

Let's look at userspace thus. (Yes, it's a little older.)

So RedHat's customers subsidise Ubuntu -- how is this a bad thing?

Posted Feb 19, 2010 1:57 UTC (Fri) by xoddam (subscriber, #2322) [Link]

I have no problem with Canonical funding and promoting a nice free desktop OS from off-the-shelf free parts other people have developed, rather than directly funding those parts.

I use Ubuntu on the desktop and CentOS on the server, mostly. But my economic activity (via my employer and hosting providers) pays real money to RedHat, whereas I never gave a penny to Canonical or the tiny-but-heroic CentOS team.

Free software is an ecosystem, not a mere labour exchange.