alt Hacker NewsThe big Linux distros (EL, Ubuntu) in fact have the opposite incentive, to get proprietary vendors to rather their distribution specifically.
The big Linux distros (EL, Ubuntu) in fact have the opposite incentive, to get proprietary vendors to rather their distribution specifically.
This theory would check out if a proprietary vendor could easily get away with shipping a single binary package for all supported versions of, say, Ubuntu.
Having to build and maintain a binary packege separately for each version of the same distro probably isn't that appealing to them.