EARLIER on we mentioned a talk about GNOME -- a talk which its deliverer (Dave Neary) wrote about and the slides are now online. They are self explanatory for the most part and they show that Red Hat is a top contributor to GNOME. What about Novell? Well, it's trailing behind but nowhere as behind as Canonical, which contributes to GNOME in terms of commits almost as much as it contributes to Linux.
Red Hat, 16%. Canonical, 1%
In case you missed it: $SUBJECT is the percentage of contribution to the GNOME codebase. Thanks, Dave Neary.
An upside of not working for Red Hat anymore: I can speak frankly about this kind of issue, since no one really cares what I think anymore. I’m just another cranky dude with a blog.
If you doubt, for a nanosecond, that Canonical is a marketing organization masquerading as an engineering organization, then you’re either an unapologetic Ubuntu fanboy or you’re not paying attention.
One of the most irritating things about working at Red Hat was watching Canonical take credit for code that Red Hat engineers wrote. Of course, Red Hat engineers, being the upstanding sort of chaps that they are, never said a word about it, because they’ve always been too busy carrying the load — and it’s really never made sense for Red Hatters to complain much about it anyway, because it’s not the sort of discussion that ever benefits the complaining party. “You’re just mad because Ubuntu’s cooler than you,” the masses would say, and to be fair, there’s always been something to that.
Comments
dyfet
2010-07-29 16:30:39
One thing often overlooked is that Canonical is also a kind of economic experiment, and one that could be rather interesting even if Canonical had chosen to be involved in GNU/Linux. This has to do with the ideas around forming community-companies and distributed multi-national teams. Some of this was touched upon more visibly and directly in the prior to it failed free-developers net experiment.
dyfet
2010-07-29 16:31:48
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2010-07-29 16:41:14
Needs Sunlight
2010-07-29 19:28:40
I'm sure that's fine for MBA's because they get taught how to implode a company within two or three years. However, the rest of us want to go back to a pre-mono, functional Debian.
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2010-07-29 19:49:43
Needs Sunlight
2010-07-29 20:25:06
The MBA's implode a company with a large net worth and pocket a tiny fraction of a promille that they "made". Basically it's a form of looting but less cost effective.
The dysfunction from Mono comes from the Microsoft way of thinking and disjointed irrationality that is its symptom (or cause).
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2010-07-29 20:32:54
Agent_Smith
2010-07-30 14:15:26
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2010-07-30 15:03:52
Agent_Smith
2010-07-30 15:24:00