Debian, Ubuntu, DCCA working together

[Anders Karlsson]

On 1/30/06, Mark Shuttleworth <mark at canonical.com> wrote:
> Old Rocker wrote:
> > However, you wrote to me indicating that Ubuntu would not become a part
> > of the DCCA.  In view of these comments, is there any update on that?
> >
> We will always collaborate around source code, that has been the case
> and will continue to be the case.

Which is a much more common sense approach IMHO. Trying to enforce
binary executable compatibility across dozens of distributions is an
exercise in futility. GCC compile time options for thousands of
packages would need to be kept in sync, and usually limited to the
least flexible package, hamstringing maybe thousands of packages.

Source collaboration on the other hand has no such limitations.
Personally, I believe that Ubuntu (and Canonical) is getting the
balance right. The friends and colleagues I have that are migrating
from other distributions to Ubuntu is a testament to that.

Just my €0.02

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Anders Karlsson <trudheim at gmail.com>