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[โ€“] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh imagine if canonical gave even a fraction of that back to Debian.

[โ€“] lengau@midwest.social 10 points 1 week ago

You mean like by hiring a significant chunk of Debian maintainers, including the most active apt developer, by having their employees maintain a significant chunk of Debian packages, and by explicitly upstreaming their patches to Debian?