Membership
There were two classes of membership in the DCC Alliance:
- Members, those organisation creating products based on the DCC-provided core subset of packages.
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- Knoppix, LinEx, Linspire, MEPIS, Progeny, Sun Wah Linux, Xandros
- Associate Members, Independent software vendors, hardware vendors, OEMs and community partners providing related support or business.
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- credativ, Skolelinux, UserLinux
Membership remained open to additional organizations with an interest in Debian-based solutions. The most visible absent from any involvement was the Ubuntu distribution who declined to join the Alliance. The Ubuntu founder, Mark Shuttleworth, stated in 2006 that he did not believe that the DCC Alliance had any future.
One of the founding members, MEPIS, later left the DCCA, citing "creative differences". MEPIS transitioned their SimplyMEPIS Linux distribution from a Debian Unstable/DCCA-provided core to an Ubuntu-based one.
In 2006 Ian Murdock left the DCC Alliance to chair the Linux Standard Base workgroup and later moved his employment to Sun Microsystems. In 2007, Progeny, the original driver behind the consortium was wound up. In 2006, Xandros was still claiming that Xandros "leads the engineering team at the DCCA".
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