On Sunday 30 July 2006 15:34, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 11:49:07AM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 12:58:15PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > > On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 08:38:23AM -0700, tony mancill wrote: > > > > For one, Debian and Ubuntu aren't in competition, [...] > > > > > > When Ubuntu leads to users having ideas like the one in the parent > > > post, this is manifestly false. > > > > Rather than blaming Ubuntu, it's more constructive to educate the user > > community about the (useful) role that derivatives play. > > Personally, I think it's fair to say Debian and Ubuntu are in > "competition" in some areas, and I don't think it's something to be > ashamed of on either side. Why shouldn't Ubuntu and Debian compete with > each other to better serve their users, both actual and potential? As > long as it's done in a cooperative manner, and with both of us willing to > share our successes with each other and learn from each others mistakes, > how is a bit of friendly competition anything but a good thing?
Nice theory, but what happens in the hypothetical example [1] when the same maintainer is responsible for the same package or set of packages in Debian and in Ubuntu (think other Debian-based distro too). Then his/her personal attitude (there is always such one) is certainly a factor in favaur of one or another distro. So, in that case I don't believe you can have whatever competition. [1] well, I don't have numbers or fact, that is a merely an assumption -- pub 4096R/0E4BD0AB 2003-03-18 <people.fccf.net/danchev/key pgp.mit.edu> fingerprint 1AE7 7C66 0A26 5BFF DF22 5D55 1C57 0C89 0E4B D0AB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
