New Debian leader seeks more innovation within project (ITWire) [LWN.net]

New Debian leader seeks more innovation within project (ITWire)

Posted Jul 14, 2013 21:39 UTC (Sun) by heijo (guest, #88363)
Parent article: New Debian leader seeks more innovation within project (ITWire)

The problem of Debian is that they are doing a lot of the hard work, while Ubuntu takes all the praise.

They should probably fix that by adopting everything from Ubuntu except the money-grubbing antifeatures like unity-shopping-lens and Ubuntu One, and the NIH syndrome effects like lack of systemd and then marketing themselves as a better, user-respecting and trustable version of Ubuntu.

New Debian leader seeks more innovation within project (ITWire)

Posted Jul 15, 2013 8:20 UTC (Mon) by ovitters (guest, #27950) [Link]

Why is that a problem of Debian? The way they release things makes this possible. If they want to get attribution, they should just market themselves a bit more, e.g. adding phrases like:
"We make Ubuntu possible"
or something.

With free software the freedom to take things and adapt it should be valued. It is one of the key things Debian looks for. Obviously people should give proper credit and work together. But Ubuntu being succesful is IMO a good thing if you release things the way Debian does.