[dundee] GNOME Census - Who Writes GNOME & the start of a Flame War

[Andrew Clayton]

"gordon dunlop" <zubenel at fedoraproject.org> wrote:

>On 31 July 2010 19:38, Andrew Clayton <andrew at digital-domain.net> wrote:
>
>> To be fair. He's just telling it like it is.
>>
>> Best none of these people look at Jon Corbet's "Who writes the Kernel
>> articles" ;)
>>
>>  People have lost the plot somehow, Red Hat is the World's biggest open
>source company with a market value of approx $5 billion, they are looking at
>taking on the big proprietary software companies. Why should you bad mouth a
>smaller Linux company which is not really in competition with you and where
>there are collaborative processes involved between the two communities, it
>is totally stupid and unproductive. "Telling like it is", just like
>Manchester United telling Scunthorpe United that we have better footballers
>than you. Come on here, the name of the game here is collaboration and not
>competition, that is what Greg totally forgot.

Ok, what I think the problem is, that's it's not that it's Red Hat saying that they are so much better
 than every one else.

It's Canonical always making some statement about how they have done this or that.
Basically making out that it's them alone.

Interesting how other distributions that have been around longer don't seem to cause ire towards them.

Because they aren't making proclamations about this that or the other.

So it's not Man U saying they are better than Scunthorpe, it's the other way around.

Hope I'm explaining this right. And I see it as Greg D just venting his frustration with this.

Andrew

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