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From: Joshua D Doll <joshua.doll@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] The Linux Ecosystem (with funny references to Gentoo vs Canonical)
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 05:51:31
Message-Id: 499115DE.4040900@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] The Linux Ecosystem (with funny references to Gentoo vs Canonical) by Saphirus Sage
1 Saphirus Sage wrote:
2 > Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
3 >
4 >> http://video.linuxfoundation.org/video/1069
5 >>
6 >> I found it quite interesting that even Gentoo beat Canonical in the
7 >> amount of patches contributed upstream...
8 >>
9 >>
10 >>
11 > Good find, I actually didn't know about E-Trade using Gentoo servers. I
12 > don't think it should be too surprising that Gentoo would contribute
13 > more patches than Conical, as until today, I'd only actually heard of
14 > one of them.
15 >
16 >
17 >
18 This video brought up an interesting question by my friend (an ubuntu
19 user). How would one go about getting Canonical or the ubuntu community
20 to change their practice of not contributing fixes back upstream?
21 Without having to change distributions.
22
23
24 --Joshua Doll

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