What's wrong with Ubuntu's policy?

[Markus Hitter]

Hello all,

today it came to my attention Dell plans to do two things:

a) Stick with Ubuntu 8.04 in favour of a more recent release for new  
machines.

b) Fork the package repository to get updates out to their customers.

<http://www.betanews.com/article/Dell-Most-Linux-users-dont-really- 
need-the-latest-version/1242843704>

In my opinion, this is disappointing. Very disappointing. What is  
wrong with Ubuntu's release/fix/backport strategy for such a thing to  
happen?


Markus

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Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter
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