Re: Ubuntu with AMD64 Support

[Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no>]

* Daniel James 

| Hi Tollef,
| 
| > | I don't think the development model is as democratic or open as
| > | mainstream Debian either. I mean, if you wanted a particular
| > | feature in Ubuntu but a certain well-known millionaire and space
| > | tourist was dead against it, do you think it would be implemented
| > | in his distribution? : )
| >
| > We're usually open to ideas
| 
| Just to clarify, when you say 'we' do you mean that you work for 
| Canonical, or are an Ubuntu project member?

Yes.  :)  I'm doing some work for canonical and the AMD64 Czar in
Ubuntu -- responsible for Ubuntu's AMD64 support.

| > and you should have _really_ crazy ideas for them to be rejected
| > outright.
| 
| I expect that's the case, but what happens a few years down the line 
| when there's a fundamental disagreement? When I was a Red Hat 5.0 
| user last century, I really bought the idea that Red Hat was a 
| community-oriented company, and at that stage I simply didn't forsee 
| that the stable distribution would become 'enterprise only' with a 
| price tag to match.
| 
| I'm not saying that the same thing will happen to Canonical, it's just 
| an example of what can happen when interests diverge over time.

I think this won't happen -- http://lwn.net/Articles/115459/ look at
the part about Soyuz and Launchpad.  It'll be easy to create
derivatives where you can change stuff.  (This is the thing I
mentioned in the last mail.)

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