criticism of Red Hat to Canonical for their contribution, or rather, lack thereof-to the Linux kernel are not new, but in recent days with news like Microsoft’s contribution to the kernel has intensified the war of words between the directors of Red Hat and Canonical.

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Inquirer, Scott Crenshaw, vice president of Cloud Computing Red Hat, clearly state that “Canonical does not write code “. When asked why Shuttleworth, the founder of Canonical and Ubuntu was the defensive:

“I think that Red Hat think that if they keep saying it enough times might become a reality. It is absolutely true that we have no interest in the basics of the Linux kernel. The Linux kernel already existed before Ubuntu was created, and what there was at that time was a commitment to end-user experience with the quality of global integration that Ubuntu did. Do not think anyone who thinks about this issue in detail can say that the huge amount of work we do in this section is not a contribution “.

Shutttleworth that even the core developers take into account the statements of Red Hat, in fact, Linus Torvalds himself acknowledged the work of Canonical about it. “When you a conference on the kernel, 70% of people use Ubuntu . That means that the work they do in the core is enhanced by the fact that their laptops work, work updates and everything works. So even in the kernel development community looks the other way when Red Hat talks about these statistics “.

In fact, the creator of Canonical also went on the attack saying that Red Hat uses Canonical code in their products. “ Red Hat uses the technology of cloud initialization we have developed at Canonical. In other words, every time you start RHEL, distribution due to start or how the technology works at Canonical. Is mission critical, is the process number one, is the component that initiates everything else on your computer, is as critical as the core, and WIN Red Hat uses for this technology Canonical “.

“ So in the cloud “, Shuttleworth continued, “ in the enterprise version, and the desktop version that Red Hat uses a great many technologies because we Canonical substantially investing in things that we think are important, and the fact that we have this view so clear on the community surrounding the Linux kernel is vibrant and healthy and is led by people who work in hardware and are interested in these themes should not turn against us “.

Crenshaw said about this last statement and indicated that “ I’m glad you could find a concrete example, and I’m sure there are others, but the fact is that when people search for innovative companies investing in engineering, Red Hat stands as the leader, and WIN is very difficult to prove that Canonical is a substantial contributor “.

As indicated in the final paragraph of the original article, the fact is that both Canonical and Red Hat have their own ways to contribute to the development of GNU / Linux. One may see that the kernel development is more important, while others believe it is the user experience which is relevant now that the Linux kernel is in such good shape. An interesting war of words that only we should make one thing clear: both companies are looking boost the popularity of Linux, which is important .

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