Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Sun 21st Sep 2008 06:46 UTC, submitted by Rahul
Greg KH, Linux kernel developer delivered a keynote in the Linux plumbing conference about the health of the ecosystem. His message was essentially that distributions that don't contribute to the ecosystem have to rely on the whims of others which is unhealthy for them. Here is an introduction the development model and some interesting statistics about the Linux kernel code. Update by TH: Rebuttals are appearing all over the web, like this one by Canonical's Matt Zimmerman ("He's refuting a claim which has, quite simply, never been made. [...] When this sort of thing happens on mailing lists, it's called trolling."), or this one by another Canonical employee, Dustin Kirkland.
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First, sorry but Debian IS in the list, and od contribute more code to the core kernel than Canonical. Secondly, you and Kroc are completely wrong. They are not blaming Canonical for "morally infringing" the GPL or similiar nonsenses... Greg is just pointing out that if you want to collaborate in the kernel ecosystem, if you want changes to happen (like Shuttleworth was asking) you have to be involved in mainstream and you have to send patches and be active in development. This is completely correct and I hope that Canonical will respond to this "show me the code" in the best way.