Conflicting Goals Create Tension in OSS Community

An anonymous reader writes "Mark Shuttleworth, of Ubuntu, has a post up meant to clear the air and clarify the project's place in the Debian community. He's specifically referring to comments made by Matthew Garrett earlier this month." From the post: "A little introspection is healthy, and Debian will benefit from the discussion. Matt is to be credited for his open commentary - a lesser person would simply have disengaged, quietly. I hope that Matt will in fact stay involved in Debian, either directly or through Ubuntu, because his talent and humour are both of enormous benefit to the project. I also hope that Debian developers will make better use of the work we do in Ubuntu, integrating relevant bits of it back into Debian so as to help uplift some of those other peaks - Xandros, Linspire, Maemo, Skolelinux and of course Etch."

Comments

Re:Please

[KokorHekkus]

That's kind of mean, considering that the words "OSS Community" appear in the title of the post. The original poster has a good point.

Not in this this particular discussion he hasn't. It's merely a misstatement that can be used as a rhetorical device to deflect the discussion from the real issue. One of the important points of the moderation systems is to keep discussions on-topic. And putting words in the mouth of people hardly is on-topic.

Re:And I've already switched back to Debian

[kernelpanicked]

Well that blog post was a waste of five minutes of my life. Oh and from your blog "Fedora simply isn't relevant in the Linux world anymore. Ubuntu has almost single-handedly replaced all major desktop-oriented distros."

On behalf of myself and all other Fedora users out there, you sir are a dipshit.

Re:wtf on his blog?

[FudRucker]

running firefox when i find a wierd page like that in the top menu i click "View" > "Page Style" > "No Style" and it pretty much makes it all plain text...