Ubuntu vs. Debian, graphically explained
October 09, 2007 at 15:13:10 GMT

Bug me not


The old-style words for now:

col·lab·o·rate
1 : to work jointly with others or together especially in an intellectual endeavor
Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary, 11th

par·a·site
synonyms: PARASITE, SYCOPHANT, TOADY, LEECH, SPONGE.
Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary, 11th

And the visual one:




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Via Pierre Habouzit.

P.S.: But at least Ubuntu has Firefox && the like, not Ice animals...
UPDATE: The drift.

9 comments
Caraibes - October 09, 2007 at 19:55:59 GMT

Great explanation ! It makes it clear...

Mih - October 10, 2007 at 03:08:43 GMT


Hmm ... mathematically => Ubuntu = parasite

eco2geek - October 10, 2007 at 07:34:39 GMT

Bon Dieu! You're forgetting all the important packages Ubuntu's contributed back to Debian! Like update-manager and update-notifier! And, um, well, um, let's see...um...

Béranger - October 10, 2007 at 07:36:45 GMT

:-)

cdrworm - October 11, 2007 at 04:51:50 GMT

Why would you want Ubuntu's workarounds? They take Debian's broken unstable packages every 6 months and patch the glitches so the program is stable for the next 6 months And the cycle continues. I would consider Ubuntu just a bi-annual stabilized version of Debian tree. Would you rather have Ubuntu be a fork of FreeBSD?

Béranger - October 11, 2007 at 06:15:14 GMT

The idea is that Ubuntu is duplicating some efforts. Knowing that Canonical has "stolen" some Debian developers, the merely fact that Ubuntu exists is harmful to Debian.

zugu - October 11, 2007 at 14:43:31 GMT

Wow, I would have never thought of that. So you're basically saying that the Ubuntu people are using GPL'd Debian sources in ways that GPL allows?

I guess they should change the license into something less permissive. Those parasites at Canonical must be stopped at any cost. Let's not forget what permissive licenses did to Wine, they had to change the license in order to stop parasites like Cedega.

Oh, would you like fries with that hypocrisy?

Béranger - October 11, 2007 at 14:45:07 GMT

Yes, French fries, please!

CliffLandin - October 19, 2007 at 23:07:27 GMT

Zugu,
I don't think the question is fries or no fries, but rather, would you like the sizzle or the steak.

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