* Daniel James | Hi Tollef, | | > | I don't think the development model is as democratic or open as | > | mainstream Debian either. I mean, if you wanted a particular | > | feature in Ubuntu but a certain well-known millionaire and space | > | tourist was dead against it, do you think it would be implemented | > | in his distribution? : ) | > | > We're usually open to ideas | | Just to clarify, when you say 'we' do you mean that you work for | Canonical, or are an Ubuntu project member?
Yes. :) I'm doing some work for canonical and the AMD64 Czar in Ubuntu -- responsible for Ubuntu's AMD64 support. | > and you should have _really_ crazy ideas for them to be rejected | > outright. | | I expect that's the case, but what happens a few years down the line | when there's a fundamental disagreement? When I was a Red Hat 5.0 | user last century, I really bought the idea that Red Hat was a | community-oriented company, and at that stage I simply didn't forsee | that the stable distribution would become 'enterprise only' with a | price tag to match. | | I'm not saying that the same thing will happen to Canonical, it's just | an example of what can happen when interests diverge over time. I think this won't happen -- http://lwn.net/Articles/115459/ look at the part about Soyuz and Launchpad. It'll be easy to create derivatives where you can change stuff. (This is the thing I mentioned in the last mail.) -- Tollef Fog Heen ,''`. UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are : :' : `. `' `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
