Oh Boy....
jayded
ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org
Thu Apr 14 08:04:11 UTC 2005
Well said ;-)
azz Wrote:
> Ian Murdoch created debian and that was excellent. He also made a
> business out of free software, and I do not get the impression he is a
> poor man; excellent again.
>
> The difference is that Murdoch sees debian packages as the product of a
> cummunity that is taken for granted. This is not necessarily wrong,
> because despite it's size, there is excellent structure in Debian. As
> the community grows, differences in opinion take longer to get ironed
> out. This, for example contributes to not being able to get work
> done.
>
> Like releasing. It is not, however, Ubuntu's fault.
>
> I do not think that Debian will ever cease, it just is natural for
> certain things to take more time.
>
> Ubuntu, on the other hand takes for granted that the community will
> improve the software. It is the ubuntu community that is cultivated.
> That is the difference.
>
> Progeny (and all the other debian based businesses) develop packages as
> a business. Ubuntu develop the community.
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jayded
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