Shuttleworth urges Linux patch and bug collaboration

[eddie]

Source: Linux-Watch

When Mark Shuttleworth, Ubuntu founder and CEO of Canonical Ltd., spoke at the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit at the Googleplex, he didn't talk about Ubuntu, patents, or hardware vendor partnerships. Instead he devoted his keynote speech to the importance of collaboration in fixing bugs and getting timely patches out to Linux users.

Shuttleworth opened by saying that today we are engaged in a conflict of ideas. "It's not about Red Hat vs. Microsoft or open source fans vs. the evil empire, any more than the Cold War was about the U.S. vs. the Soviet Union. The conflict is really about ideas."

Open source has the power of collaboration, which in turn gives Linux and other open-source programs far greater speed in innovation. On the other hand, our "enemy has far more capital than we do. Our key advantage is that we have the better innovation pipeline."

There is no disagreement that Mark Shuttleworth is very good with words (especially words of encouragement) but this speech is spot on. Do read the link. It is highly recommended and addresses some key problems that FOSS community is facing.

[praka123]

his ideas are good.but no way does distros come united.
no way do GNOME and KDE devels interacts well apart from freedesktop.org project.
yes bcoz of some standards things are going smooth -LSB
but the bug reporting sure needs a simpler way(s).

[eddie]

^ and that is a really sad situation
Just imagine the amount of duplicated work going around in the community. I am not talking about duplicate products...choice is a great thing but things like fixing bugs should definitely be made decentralized. The bugs fixed in projects like Gentoo, Debian, openSUSE and Fedora take so much time in reaching upstream that devs from other projects already create their own patches. If we can integrate that effort then it would be godsend!