Re: Canonical's business model
Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> writes:
> Gustavo Franco wrote:
>> I agree with "similar things being said" but i'm yet to hear about the
>> lack of collaboration and give Debian something back. For example: I
>> don't remember too much people caring about PGI (Progeny) and after
>> that anaconda "port" to say that they weren't contributing the
>> installer efforts to us, even when d-i was already there.
>
> FWIW, progeny uploaded pgi to Debian (I forget if it ever made it out of
> incoming) and have contributed back other tools like pickaxe too (pity
> we haven't tried to use it and are still stuck with the Evil that is
> debian-cd). I think it was pretty clear by the time their anaonda port
> came around that Debian was not very interested it it except possibly as
> a fallback if d-i failed to materialize.
Also discover1 and discover2.
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