-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> | That's not what I'm asking for. Ubuntu is kind of special; it has > | nothing to do with Corel, SkoleLinux or Progeny. > > (It's Skolelinux, btw.) Sorry. > | They want to be as close to Debian as possible, by contributing back > | etc, which is good, as long as they're not trying to impose their > | agenda on the Project. It'd be a clear profit to just snapshot > | Debian, remove 3 buggy packages, and market it; much more that > | taking a snapshot, take 6 months to stabilize it (fix a bunch of > | packages in that timeframe) and market it. > > Skolelinux is today known as debian-edu; there are corporations behind > it, pushing it and shaping it to be the best possible educational > distribution. Does this bother you? Absolutely not. I'm all in favour. > Why does it bother you that Ubuntu snapshots Debian, stabilises it > (while contributing fixes back, I think we have established that now > and can stop giving random examples) and releases it? debian-edu isn't in direct competition with Debian itself, unlike Ubuntu. I think that's partly what makes me a bit uncomfortable about it, if you add the secrecy I talked about previously. > Does it bother you that corporations fund development on KDE and GNOME > and thereby help shape what those desktops will look like in the > future? I don't care about either KDE or GNOME. GNOME shoot themselves in the feet, KDE seems to remain KDE so far. I have no special interest here, being a WindowMaker user, with no desktop environment running (tired of GNOME upgrades screwing up my settings -- of which I have never been satisfied anyway). I do care about Debian, that's why I'm posting. All of this seems important to me, as it has a non-negligeable impact on what the Project will be tomorrow. JB. - -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Public key available on <http://www.jblache.org> - KeyID: F5D6 5169 GPG Fingerprint : 935A 79F1 C8B3 3521 FD62 7CC7 CD61 4FD7 F5D6 5169 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8 <http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/> iD8DBQFCNwWLzWFP1/XWUWkRAl8GAJoD5CLpecTYyWg+eJVaF788nVVEbQCfbC8g CRbEX4vHAxlijY7alQXlkIg= =QSXX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
