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> Thank you Canonical for the competition One of those examples where competition does not help at all. Many desktop users and contributors moved to Ubuntu an
by eeZah7Ux 9y ago
> Thank you Canonical for the competition
One of those examples where competition does not help at all.
Many desktop users and contributors moved to Ubuntu and stopped contributing to Debian. A good number slowly moved back to Debian in the last 5 years.
- qznc 9y agoI believe it helped. Canonical invested in usability and raised the bar in general. Maybe for clarification, I'm thinking about stuff like the Papercuts initiative [0] in 2009. There is a similar situation with clang and gcc. Clang improved error messages and raised the bar. Gcc follows. It would probably not have improved on its own. [0] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2009/06/canonical-to-boost-ubuntu-usability-by-tackling-papercuts/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2009/06/canon...
- coffee9 9y agoMany of those contributions get backported, it's certainly been a net benefit.