Chilly up there, but worth the view
Ubuntu founder -and zillionaire space tourist- Mark Shuttleworth once again gains high marks for lyrical eloquence and farsightedness, not to mention a healthy dose of respect for GNU/Linux’s glacial massif.
Debian is the Tibetan Plateau of the free software landscape – elevated through the grinding efforts of conflicting passions to the point of forcing those who visit to get along in a somewhat rarified atmosphere. It can be difficult to breathe up there, sometimes.[..]
By contrast with Debian’s Plateau, Ubuntu is a cluster of peaks. By narrowing the focus and allowing the KDE, Gnome and server communities to leverage the base of Debian without treading on one another’s toes, we can create a K2, and a Kangchenjunga and a Lhotse.
– Mark Shuttleworth, on the Matt Garrett furore
(via Slashdot, of course)
There’s also a Reuters piece on Shuttleworth, today, carried by ZDnet, that focuses on Microsoft’s response to Ubuntu.
PS: Still no miniposts facility for blogentis, but there are ways to go about them…
