<quote who="Josselin Mouette" date="2005-06-05 18:50:57 +0200"> > The problem is that the decisions are always taken for the Ubuntu > distribution first. Then, people from Canonical or people wanting to > keep compatibility between the two distributions will always want Debian > to follow the decisions taken for Ubuntu, regardless of their technical > merit and relevance for Debian. This way, Debian ends up being lead by > Canonical, and always lagging behind. There are no closed Ubuntu development lists or IRC development channels and you can go see for yourself. I can save you the trouble and, as somebody with "insider knowledge" tell you that no such conspiracy, or the desire for one, exists in the Ubuntu community or within Canonical. Then again, I'm "one of them" so I hardly expect you to believe me. > I'm not saying that for this particular decision, it wasn't the right > thing to do. I'm questioning the independence of the project as a whole > for important technical decisions. I think that Debians' instituational independence remains its strongest asset and the most attractive thing to me about the project on a personal level. Ubuntu hackers aren't trying to threaten that and, even if they were, I don't think they would be succesful. Regards, Mako -- Benjamin Mako Hill mako@atdot.cc http://mako.cc/
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