[ale] Shuttleworth's reputation, why? - Re: Major contributors to the Linux kernel

[giovanni_re]

Hi Don :)

On Fri, 01 Apr 2011 21:37:24 -0400, "The Don Lachlan"
<ale-at-ale.org at unpopularminds.org> said:

> Ubuntu is primarily focused on forking Debian and narrowing the focus. 
> Plenty of distributions do exactly that and it's part of why we write
> free 
> software. As a result, Ubuntu isn't doing the kind of work that would
> create 
> much need to contribute to the kernel.
> 
> The largest group of contributors are still unaffiliated with an
> employer. I 
> would be terribly unhappy if we looked at that list of kernel
> contributors 
> and decided RedHat, Novell, IBM, HP and Oracle are the people we should 
> crowd around and support for "free software".
> 
> -L (Shuttleworth is still a prick, btw.)


Came across this a week ago, & I'd be glad to tell you why i'm writing
you now about this - after you answer my question (so as to not
influence your answer).

Do you still think that about Mark?  If so, I'm curious what major
reasons why.


I did read some bits of the thread of
[ale]  Canonical makes Apple look so good...
from 110307, which I think was the thread referenced by Jeff in:
"Going back to the discussion a couple of weeks ago about whether
Canonical (Ubuntu) is "contributing" or a parasite as some implied I
notice they don't appear in the list. "

specifically, I saw:
">From Mark Shuttleworth's blog posted earlier:
"This enables us to make the desktop available in a high quality,
fully maintained form, without any royalties or license fees. By
contrast, every other commercial Linux desktop is a licensed product –
you can’t legally use it for free, the terms for binaries are similar
to those for Windows or the MacOS."

That's completely false. It's not even *kinda* true on any grounds.
You can freely use or distribute RHEL or SLES or any other
"commercial" GNU/Linux distro without fear - because it's all GPL or
GPL-compatible.

-Lachlan"

so, I thought perhaps that might be largely your reason,
but, I wanted to ask you, Don, specifically why you thought that about
Mark.


Please respond to the ALE list. Cause, i'm "to"ing you since this thread
is a bit old, so you'll notice this.

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