community involvement =/= community distro
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| linux4567 Jun 10, 2013 6:37 AM CST |
Just because a distro has some degree of community involvement (like Fedora, Opensuse, Ubuntu) that doesn't make it a community distro. A real community distro is run completely by a community of volunteers who do all the work and make all the decisions without influence from any commercial entity. |
| DrGeoffrey Jun 10, 2013 7:06 AM CST |
It's fascinating how all these commercial distributions want to be called a community distro. Perhaps marketing in Linux is not dead. |
| flufferbeer Jun 10, 2013 9:53 AM CST |
@DrGeoffrrey, >> It's fascinating how all these commercial distributions want to be called a community distro. Seems to me that the worst of these here is the Canonical-M$'s flagship product, Baboontu. Remember all that brouhaha around March 9-10 of this year about the Canonical bigshots' notorious "Community-Avoidance" decisions(M$) and PR-spin(JBocan) ??!! 2c |
| Browser72 Jun 10, 2013 10:29 AM CST |
@linux4567, By that definition, wouldn't Linux MInt be a non0community distribution. It hires developers. So it's not completely run by a community of volunteers. I think the expansion of Linux Mint and their decision to expand with paid developers was a very good thing. |
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