[Most of the replies from people appear to have completely missed the point, but I'll just pick up on this one because it's not so far off...] On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 11:52:43AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > It's also important to not completely conflate the people who work for > Canonical with the actions of Canonical the company. The primary thing I object to is that the ones doing the conflating are Canonical themselves. They're forever talking about how great they are for "giving back to Debian", and all their wonderful "committments". > Many people who work > for companies contribute to free software as part of their job, as a > hobby, or in that grey area of their days that's partly work and partly > their own time. Many of free software's most valuable contributors have > done this. Which means that the distinction between Canonical and any other company is pretty much nothing - except for their continual, offensive PR effort claiming otherwise. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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