Comparing to other distributions
My statement remains valid as long as you can't identify Bryce Harrington as a main representative of the Ubuntu operating system. It's that simple.
I see he commits some stuff to XServer, but who knows if these commits were part of Canonical's business strategy.
I'm sure they have a policy which allows developers to fix bugs when they encounter them. Judging from the size and type of these commits, there is no indication for a real direction.
If you value those petty bugfixes as real contributions, then you're right.
But look at other distributions: Gentoo developers for example work at their own devfs in userspace (eudev), Debian has an own Linux-Kernel team and Red Hat is the largest contributor to Xorg.
It is an insult to every one of them when somebody like you tries to bring Ubuntu on par with them.
The Ubuntu-developers may not "never" contribute upstream, but compared to other distributions, it's a bloody joke.
And you know that.
BTW: Stop being so cocky. Take this as a friendly advice.
Originally posted by DanL
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I see he commits some stuff to XServer, but who knows if these commits were part of Canonical's business strategy.
I'm sure they have a policy which allows developers to fix bugs when they encounter them. Judging from the size and type of these commits, there is no indication for a real direction.
If you value those petty bugfixes as real contributions, then you're right.
But look at other distributions: Gentoo developers for example work at their own devfs in userspace (eudev), Debian has an own Linux-Kernel team and Red Hat is the largest contributor to Xorg.
It is an insult to every one of them when somebody like you tries to bring Ubuntu on par with them.
The Ubuntu-developers may not "never" contribute upstream, but compared to other distributions, it's a bloody joke.
And you know that.
BTW: Stop being so cocky. Take this as a friendly advice.
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