<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">-- On <b>Sun, 8/1/10, Khalid Baheyeldin <i><kb@2bits.com></i></b> wrote:<br>> Some Gnome statistics were published, and some are spinning it <br>>as "Redhat contributes 16 to 1 more than Canonical".<br><br>A guy that no longer works at Red Hat rants and you consider it the official Red Hat position? <br><br>Raul Suarez<br>
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An eclectic collection of random thoughts<br><br>--- On <b>Sun, 8/1/10, Khalid Baheyeldin <i><kb@2bits.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Khalid Baheyeldin <kb@2bits.com><br>Subject: [kwlug-disc] Gnome statistics: Redhat 16 - Canonical 1?<br>To: "KWLUG discussion" <kwlug-disc@kwlug.org><br>Received: Sunday, August 1, 2010, 9:12 PM<br><br><div id="yiv1167755235">Some Gnome statistics were published, and some are spinning it <br>as "Redhat contributes 16 to 1 more than Canonical".<br><br>For example: ex-Community manager for Redhat:<br><br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://gregdekspeaks.wordpress.com/2010/07/29/red-hat-16-canonical-1/">http://gregdekspeaks.wordpress.com/2010/07/29/red-hat-16-canonical-1/</a><br>

<br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/08/01/0326208/First-GNOME-Census-Results">http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/08/01/0326208/First-GNOME-Census-Results</a><br><br>I find reducing "contribution" to being defined by amount of patches or lines<br>

of code to be at least myopic and/or biased.<br clear="all"><br>Redhat exited the consumer desktop market a long time ago, and Ubuntu<br>filled in that void. They package and polish existing software into a good<br>product, and built a community around it. That is their contribution, not just<br>

code ...<br><br>No wonder Mark Shuttleworth decries Tribalism<br><br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/07/30/1855203/Tribalism-Is-the-Enemy-Within-Says-Shuttleworth">http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/07/30/1855203/Tribalism-Is-the-Enemy-Within-Says-Shuttleworth</a><br>

<br>This the first time that notice unhealthy rivalry between Canonical and Redhat,<br>or has this been going on for a long time. If it is recent, what triggered it?<br>-- <br>Khalid M. Baheyeldin<br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://2bits.com">2bits.com</a>, Inc.<br>
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