[Ilugc] Canonical Not Great Contributor

[Satish Chandra]

On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 7:29 AM, Swapnil Bhartiya <arnieswap at yahoo.com>wrote:

> I just learnt from a friend of mine that I should stop using Ubuntu as
> Canonical is not contributing to the development of GNU/Linux systems as
> compared to other players. He also suggested that since most of its stuff,
> or nothing, is upstream so we cant trust it. Also his argument was, being
> run by one man, who may tomorrow change his mind and stop support to Ubuntu,
> then what?
>


Even though Ubuntu doesn't contribute development wise, they have an
important contribution - a large user base who can serve as testers. I
myself am not much knowledgeable with how Linux works, but have reported two
gnome usability bugs which were reported upstream and were fixed. In recent
years, Canonical's role in popularizing Linux is not insignificant. I feel
that it is as important a contribution as submitting patches.

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Regards,
Satish