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2004 called, they want their flame back. But seriously: Shuttleworth tried a classic EEE play on Debian, over and over and over. Obviously nerds mostly want to
by toyg 4y ago
2004 called, they want their flame back.
But seriously: Shuttleworth tried a classic EEE play on Debian, over and over and over. Obviously nerds mostly want to get along and will end up talking to each other, but it doesn't change the fact that, at the time, it was a (not-that-) thinly veiled, well-funded takeover attempt on the Debian ecosystem and community.
> Ubuntu changes feed back into Debian. Debian now has the `apt` command
It's nice that you bring up a classic case of unashamed namesquatting. People have been referring to "apt" in general terms since apt-get came on the scenes, 6 YEARS before Canonical was founded. But why give up the chance to piggyback on someone else's brand, eh...? So when the time came to churn on the umpteen apt-get frontend, they did just that.
- lproven 4y agoOK. It definitely looks like you are someone who won't be reasoned with on this. APT as a set of tools is ancient. `apt` as a command isn't. It is handy, it's simpler and easier, it eliminates the nonsensical split between apt-get and apt-cache and aptitude and so on... and you can tell, because Debian adopted it. I like it. I use it all the time. The upstream project adopted it, but to you, that's bad, because it falsifies your angry claim. Yeah, no. End of thread.