Ubuntu Kernel Conribuitions

[Pete Graner]

(``-_-´´) -- Fernando wrote:
> First, I'm sorry for the cross posting, but this subject concerns both areas.
> 
> I've been attending several distros users meeting this last year, and had my last one at OpenSuse ENOS08 [1].
> In every meeting I go, I keep hearing that Ubuntu/Canonical does not help the GNU/Linux ecosystem by providing patchs.
> Me, and other Ubunteros present, always try to show that that is not true, and show them several examples of what is being done.
> Just this week, I emailed OpenSuse-pt users list showing an kernel patch example and a possible reason for why they dont see many Ubuntu entries: lots of the Core DEVs use their employer's email, Canonical.
> 
> Then a user replied back with [2]. As I was reading I noticed the ironic way the writer was using, and I would like to know if this is FUD, or if actually Ubuntu/Canonical FOSS ecosystem is as small as those numbers show.
> 
> Thanks in advance, and lets keep making the best FOSS OS, the best it can be.
> 
> [1] http://pt.opensuse.org/Eventos/ENOS
> [2] http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/lpc_2008_keynote.html
> 
> 

This has come up several times see the following blog postings:

http://mdzlog.wordpress.com/
http://dustinkirkland.wordpress.com/2008/09/18/whats-behind-gregkhs-latest-rant/
http://blog.redvoodoo.org/2008/09/linux-plumbers-conference-recap.html

~pete

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