[Debian-in-workers] Kerala Govt's MoU with Red Hat

[Mahesh T. Pai]

CK Raju said on Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 06:36:28PM +0530,:

 > An official maintainer of a package refusing to accept bug reports
 > from *unofficial versions* (Red Hat's)  is something that deprives
 > a developer to gain first hand experience from official team. Its a
 > denial of freedom for the developer, especially since the
 > *understanding of democracy* by unofficial and official groups are
 > hardly the same - if they were identical why should there be a Red
 > Hat at all.  

Raju,  you  are experienced  and  well  versed  enough with  the  free
software system  to know that the  picture you are trying  to paint is
not the correct one.

And if at all there is a refusal on part of the official maintainers /
developers  to accept  bugs  and  fixes from  users  of versions  from
distributors  and  / or  other  developers,  the ``other  developers''
always  have  the freedom  to  fork, and  you  [ought  to] know  which
prominent GNU project was forked thus.

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