- To: jdub@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Subject: Re: [SLUG] Is Linus killing Linux?
- From: raster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon Feb 19 12:00:02 2001
- Cc: slug@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Reply-to: raster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 19 Feb, Jeff Waugh scribbled:
-> <quote who="raster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx">
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-> > IMHO there should be a non profit organisation thatis funded by all
-> > companies using linux that people work for (probably the top developers
-> > most likely) who just ork on improving things and rolling back changes
-> > the commercial vendors make intoa central distribution of software
-> > compnents so its kept organised.
->
-> Haven't you just summed up a funded, widely-supported Debian project?
no. they dont do evelopment and handle rolling in features to a cental
course base and keeping the features form overlapping, conflicting and
make sure they are all implimented well and cleanly
:) thy do packaging (and any patches needed to make the package work)
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