Is Canonical against Kubuntu (1): the translation disaster

[Derek Broughton]

Matthew Flaschen wrote:

> Anton wrote:
>> which is in german sorry, here they tell that kde stuff is imported in
>> rosetta and then you can translate it ... but will this go back
>> to the kde source, if not there will be inconsistencies.
> 
> Yes, of course it can go back.  It's just like any upstream patch.  KDE
> coordinates with Ubuntu, and KDE has the final say on what goes
> upstream.  But to say that Ubuntu is hoarding or something makes no
> sense.  It's all free and in standard format.
> 

I really thought that sort of criticism of Ubuntu was dead.  iirc, they used
to say that Ubuntu stole from Debian and didn't give anything back - until
Debian developers pointed out that they were offered everything that Ubuntu
had modified from Debian, but Debian didn't actually _want_ much of it. 
-- 
derek