On: On balancing economic power

[Egregore]

I don't know why the link points to the comment not to the beginning of article, but here is a small summarization:

Mark wants that all providers of components (he call them upstream providers, like for example MySQL, Mozilla) become a more powerful entities, so that their output will be of higher quality and looks for ways how it can be achieved.

He also says that now the burden to decide how components will work is on distributions, like Canonical and Red Hat and it stifles innovation.

[FlowerPower → Egregore]

Maybe he should look to output a quality like that of Mozilla and MySQL for his companies main product, Ubuntu.

If Ubuntu would ever reach that quality, oh man. But its easier to ask somebody else to do it for you, thats the Canonical way.