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The cost of Ubuntu providing them seems very low here. If that's so, then they'll get tons of volunteers willing to put in the "very low" effort, no? More seri
by xyzzyz 7y ago
The cost of Ubuntu providing them seems very low here.
If that's so, then they'll get tons of volunteers willing to put in the "very low" effort, no? More seriously, I don't think that it's going to happen, and I think you'll agree that it's unlikely. This suggests that the cost is not so low after all.
- eikenberry 7y agoThey already have all the volunteers they need in the form of Debian developers and packagers. Ubuntu is 99% Debian with just some minor changes on top. The only real costs to them are for building and distributing.
- despera 7y agoOn a gentoo system being able to easily see the backbones of multi-lib support i can say that it's mostly a straight forward process, sometimes exotic makefiles might need a little push, nothing much more beyond that. Also there are volunteers only for non profit organizations like debian, arch, gentoo etc. For everyone else we are just customers and we have no obligation to help and every right to criticize.