[ncolug] Re: Mark Shuttleworth on Ubuntu Long Term Support
- From: Chuck Stickelman <cstickelman@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: ncolug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2006 17:25:34 -0400
Henry Keultjes wrote:
http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/06/01/1421208&from=rss
Chuck Stickelman:
You have always been a brave defender of Debian and I mut say that I
have never disagreed with you.
However, if we are trying to get Linux and Open Source software more
widely adopted, would not that next circle of adopters be more likely
to switch if they can pay for commercial support for their free product?
Henry Keultjes
Mansfield Ohio USA
There are many who want to pay someone else to support their resources.
I have no problem with people having the freedom to choose to support
their IT internal, externally, or in some mixed environment. Debian has
always had people willing and able to provide support for the free
Debian GNU/Linux solution. Check out the Debian Consultants Website
<http://www.debian.org/consultants/> to find a list of those who are
currently providing commercial support to Debian.
Now, I don't many problems with Ubuntu; I wish they'd not made their
packages differ from Debian's without changing the package's extension.
Using the .deb extension should obligate them to using the Debian
locations of ALL files. Period. The second issue I have with the
Ubuntu developers is that they should be pushing their fixes upstream.
(If they have found an inadequacy in a package requiring them to make a
change, then they should pass that change upstream so everyone benefits
from their efforts -- which is what everyone's doing in the Open Source
world...)
I see what Ubuntu is doing as no different from what the Red Hat guys
did when they abandoned the Debian project; and the results are just as
devastating to the larger Linux community. Imagine where we'd be if all
distros were based on the same underlying packaging scheme...
Chuck
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