-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jim Kissel wrote: > > Alan Pope wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 09:57:36AM +0100, Jim Kissel wrote: >>> So do I, but some people at the local LUG have taken exception to it. >> Heh. Linux User Groups are a great melting pot of opinions. They're great >> for just this kind of zealotary stuff. :) and :( >> >>> Even worse, I once commented to the effect that Ubuntu was the >>> same/similar to Debian. I got my head handed to me on a platter for >>> that one, but oddly enough Ian Murdock thinks that Ubuntu-Debian are the >>> same. "I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian" Ian Murdock, Linux Format, >>> LXF92 May 2007. >>> >> It's been said to me that Ian Murdock has been somewhat irrelavent to the >> Linux (and indeed Debian) community for some years now, and very soon Sun >> will realise that and want to sell him back to us. > > I realize that Ian hasn't been active in the Debian development for some > time. I didn't realise he was considered irrelevant by some members of > the Linux/Debian community. raison d'etre?
He doesn't do anything in the Debian community these days but he runs/owns the Progeny linux distro and chairs the LSB so maybe he's not irrelevant to the Linux community. Dean -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGHUYPeedO8dcp9nYRAoEPAJ94SauUYwN4LyT7no/JLJIwSsUs2QCeOMcM drhkVYAJtRAhBvNaxds+G+c= =VcdZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
