David Nusinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The greatest strength of having Canonical on our side, from my POV, is that > it's a company full of people like Daniel, who are fundamentally Debian > people, and who are willing to work with you on this kind of personal > level. I don't really buy in to their whole "giving back to Debian" thing > (because they didn't really "give back" xorg, I had to take it after they > made it for themselves) but they do present a great opportunity for us to > establish these kinds of working relationships.
It seems to me that there's one particular point where they actively give back, and that is: security. I've seen loads of security patches created by Martin Pitt, applied to Ubuntu *and* submitted as bugs to our BTS. I can't say that I've already built up a working relationship with Martin, but I've communicated very well with him. However, I believe that the reason might not only be Martin's commitment to "give back" to Debian, but rather the completely egoistic desire not to be forced to maintain a bunch of security patches that are not in Debian. Be the reason whatever it is, I think that we have profited from it, and personally I thank Martin very much! Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer
