Re:Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS released
by sangnoir on Monday February 20, 2017 @10:36AM
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> 3. systemd is easy to get going on any distro, not just RH, unlike many of Canonical's creations.
I don't know where you're going with this, but didn't "Canonical's creation" upstart ship with RHEL6?
> 4. Unlike Canonical, RH employs many people that benefit the wider community* as a whole, ie GNOME, kernel devs etc.
No shit. RH has 14-times as many employees as Canonical (Google suggests 9 870 vs 700). I didn't bother to check revenue figures, but it's obvious that Canonical has to choose it's battles.
In some cases, I find the nebulous benefits to the "community" dubious: Gnome3 and systemd seem to have been conceived fully formed from the minds of their RH-employed leads who are pretty headstrong and won't easily accept criticism of their vision by the said community. I'm sure there are enough rants online about features dropped from Gnome3 with no real reason.
The late Pieter Hintjens had something to say about who benefited as Red Hat interacted with the AMQP community[1]
I don't know where you're going with this, but didn't "Canonical's creation" upstart ship with RHEL6?
> 4. Unlike Canonical, RH employs many people that benefit the wider community* as a whole, ie GNOME, kernel devs etc.
No shit. RH has 14-times as many employees as Canonical (Google suggests 9 870 vs 700). I didn't bother to check revenue figures, but it's obvious that Canonical has to choose it's battles.
In some cases, I find the nebulous benefits to the "community" dubious: Gnome3 and systemd seem to have been conceived fully formed from the minds of their RH-employed leads who are pretty headstrong and won't easily accept criticism of their vision by the said community. I'm sure there are enough rants online about features dropped from Gnome3 with no real reason.
The late Pieter Hintjens had something to say about who benefited as Red Hat interacted with the AMQP community[1]
1. http://techrights.org/2009/03/18/amqp-patents-red-hat/