[ Thanks to Steven J.
Vaughan-Nichols for this link. ]
“Last week, Greg DeKoenigsberg, a former Red Hat
developer on the Fedora community Linux project and now CTO of The
Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education
(ISKME), ignited a firestorm by showing that, when it comes to
code, Red Hat does far more for open-source projects like GNOME
than Canonical, Ubuntu’s parent company, has ever done. To quote
DeKoenigsberg: “Canonical is a marketing organization masquerading
as an engineering organization.”“That went over in Linux circles about as well as you would
expect it to.“Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth responded with a blog about
how tribalism, which Shuttleworth defined as “when one group of
people start to think people from another group are ‘wrong by
default.'””