MEPIS may be going Ubuntu

[Shawn McMahon]

On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 09:20:34PM +0800, John said:
> 
> There is truth in the notion that, while groups such as Canonical, 
> Progeny, UserLinux, Mepis are creating releases from Debian that it does 
> not matter that Debian rarely releases, but that only holds while those 
> others _are_ doing the work.
> 
> It's flattering, no question there, but I don't think it's helpful to us 
> nor, in the long term, to them.

I disagree.  I think that if it causes Debian to start looking at how
they aren't servicing the customers that voted with their feet, and how
we are, they might find different solutions to the same problems, and
this is good.  Now, if I thought for a moment that it would cause Debian
to just ape Ubuntu, I wouldn't be so optimistic, but that is unlikely to
happen.


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