Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting
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Wouter Verhelst <wouter@nixsys.be> wrote:
> Short of a "yeah, we're there" on IRC when the bylaws were published and
> official and all on july 21st, 2003, I didn't do anything to inform
> anyone what I was up to, which is considerably less than can be said of
> the Canonical folks. In fact, I think it took many months before I
> actually told a fellow Debian Developer what the name of my company was,
> simply because nobody asked about it before that time.
>
> Will you start hating me too, now?
No. I won't hate you just like I don't hate the Ubuntu folks. I hate
the way we were made aware of Ubuntu, and it has some implications wrt
the trust I put in Ubuntu.
> My point being: I don't think it's reasonable to request Debian people
> to publically announce the job they're doing, even if they've got a
> fairly important role in Debian, or if the job they're doing will end
> them up with less time to spend on Debian than before they were on their
> current employer's payroll.
That's not what I'm asking for. Ubuntu is kind of special; it has
nothing to do with Corel, SkoleLinux or Progeny. They want to be as
close to Debian as possible, by contributing back etc, which is good,
as long as they're not trying to impose their agenda on the
Project. It'd be a clear profit to just snapshot Debian, remove 3
buggy packages, and market it; much more that taking a snapshot, take
6 months to stabilize it (fix a bunch of packages in that timeframe)
and market it.
I'm not sure you'll be getting my point, it can be summarized as: "I
don't want to see the Project become Ubuntu's slave".
JB.
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