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And still... That's not the point. The point is that Canonical is targeting the desktop market, but their contributions seldom get upstreamed. OTOH Red Hat make
by mapleoin 16y ago
And still... That's not the point. The point is that Canonical is targeting the desktop market, but their contributions seldom get upstreamed. OTOH Red Hat makes most of the contributions and they're not even focusing on that market.
- nkassis 16y agoRedhat is a much larger company with much larger resources. The contributions they are able to make is thus much larger. I don't see how this should be taken as a surprised. Their contribution to the desktop are nothing compared to their server side work. Most of what Ubuntu/Canonical contributes is integration work which is specific to their distro in nature. That's already a lot of work for the size of their company. If Redhat wanted to they could promote Fedora as a desktop system. I know many organization that use it but for the man in the street (MITS) Ubuntu is just more visible. Red Hat could put some PR money on Fedora. I see also a lot of work being put by Canonical in just replicating work that took Red Hat years to make. Building their enterprise infrastructure is sapping a lot of work. Landscape,Launchpad,Ubuntu One... (Launchpad could be dropped considering the other services popping up that are much better.) are expensive projects to make and aren't of much use to the FOSS community at large.