[Liverpool] Teamwork

[oscillik]

forgive me, but i think this was a joke.

On 24 March 2010 14:40, Sebastian Arcus <shop at open-t.co.uk> wrote:

>  On 03/24/2010 01:46 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>
> What many people don’t understand about Linux development is that it’s
> truly a team effort:
>
> Red Hat develops the kernel,
> Novell develops the applications,
> Debian does the packaging,
> and Ubuntu takes the credit!
>
> From http://keithcu.com/wordpress/?page_id=558
>
>    Err ... Red Hat develops the kernel? That is news to me. I mean, no
> doubt they had their share of contributions to the kernel development, but
> according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel :
>
> "Day-to-day development takes place on the Linux kernel mailing list<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel_mailing_list>
> "
>
> and
>
> "The Linux kernel has received contributions from thousands of programmers"
>
> I don't even know where to start with "Novell develops the applications"
>
> Also, I could be wrong, but the article seems to miss a fundamental point.
> The only way for the Ubuntu founder to achieve his goal(s) was a fork.
> Injecting extra resources into Debian would have never allowed him to take
> all the decisions he has the freedom to take when he is running his own
> show. Oh yes, with a lot of debate an begging - maybe he would have gotten
> what he wanted in 10x the time. That is the core of the matter, and that is
> why pretty much all forks of various open source projects have happened -
> it's about having the decisional power. That's just how open source works.
>
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