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Re: FW: Mail forwarding in return for Debian donation



On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 01:09:19PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 08:35:51PM +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 06:19:32PM +0100, Pete van der Spoel wrote:
> > > Or is the whole Ubuntu thing (where I understand Mark Shuttleworth has hired
> > > a large number of the senior Debian developers) considered to be the
> > > solution to this problem?
> > 
> > Hiring developers away from a project, so that they no longer spend
> > time on it, is not normally considered a good solution.
> 
> Fortunately, that is not the case with Canonical.

Yes it is. Fork and forget is Canonical's modus operandi (despite all
the PR claiming otherwise).

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