Beyond Firefox 4.0: Handling an accelerated development cycle

Posted Mar 11, 2011 1:36 UTC (Fri) by jrn (subscriber, #64214)
In reply to: Beyond Firefox 4.0: Handling an accelerated development cycle by elanthis
Parent article: Beyond Firefox 4.0: Handling an accelerated development cycle

> Yes, distributions currently apply a lot of fixes to upstream. Because they have to because they taught upstream to be lazy idiots.

Do you remember what life was like before the major distributions? (I don't mean to point to any particular conclusion by this. You just might find it interesting to look into.)