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by mattl
1096 days ago
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Yeah, I saw it too.. we used a precursor to Ubuntu Pro so I'm sure my message was less obnoxious. I think they're also offering patches for some commonly installed third-party stuff like nodejs via Ubuntu Pro. I actually quite like Ubuntu Pro for the fact I can send a developer a laptop and know that there's 24/7 support from Canonical. I was a little dubious at how good they'd be, but they were able to diagnose the problem and provide a fix. |
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Yeah. That rubs me the wrong way. Like, they're clearly entitled to pay developers money for whatever they want.
However, they're paying developers to develop patches they're not sharing back with their upstream in a timely fashion:
1. Without those patches going through the upstream channel(s), there's no real mechanism to push back on patches and aren't good enough (for whatever reason)
2. It feels like they're taking advantage of the rest of the OSS ecosystem that is writing software / developing fixes and providing them in a timely fashion
:/