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That's an incomplete analogy. Specific Open Source projects aren't democracies Open Source at large is, or something resembling it. I installed Ubuntu 10.04 b
by avar 17y ago
That's an incomplete analogy. Specific Open Source projects aren't democracies Open Source at large is, or something resembling it.
I installed Ubuntu 10.04 beta1 and didn't like the button arrangement. It was trivial to fix it by just doing: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:stownsend42/light-themes
If enough people don't like the default setup of Ubuntu someone will just fork it. In fact there are already three forks that I know of: Kubuntu, Xubuntu and Edubuntu.
- fader 17y agoJust FYI, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, and Edubuntu are not really forks -- they're official 'flavours' of Ubuntu supported by Canonical. (As are Ubuntu Netbook Edition, Ubuntu Studio, and Ubuntu Server.) Linux Mint is probably closer to a fork of Ubuntu -- they take the Ubuntu distribution, make some changes and additions, and re-release it.
- avar 17y agoI was actually aware of that. I've just been inspired by GitHub to use the word "fork" in a more inclusive manner. Anyway, it really doesn't really matter who maintains the the fork. The important part is that with Open Source anyone can create one. If your fork is better it'll become the canonical version. Just look at what happened with XFree86 and X.Org.