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Canonical Reportedly Slashing Jobs, Seeking Outside Investment
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normal, when some departament ends, the ppl are resign or fired, always the same story. It's time to put some of these guys working in gnome 3 since their want this for future and put as default with ubuntu 17.10, I can't see the point to maintain unity 7 since they finish unity project
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While a MSFT investment wouldn't be out of the ordinary today, prior investments by MSFT in a distro has proven ghastly. Just ask Xandros.
If Canonical sell to RH, that would be the end of Ubuntu. Why would they want to prop them up?
Dell is broke buying EMC, they don't have any dough. The next candidate would be Citrix, but they just unloaded a bunch of baggage in 2016, don't think they want more.
Symantec has no interest in an OS and they too are trying to shed products.
Cisco buys anything that moves, but an OS wouldn't be anymore strategic than Linksys was.
IBM already has AIX and a strategy with Red Hat for integration. No points there.
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Originally posted by edwaleni View PostWhile a MSFT investment wouldn't be out of the ordinary today, prior investments by MSFT in a distro has proven ghastly. Just ask Xandros.
I was working at Xandros when all this went down. I have no inside information on what's happening at Canonical at this time.
A desktop OS is a commodity enabling technology. I don't think even Microsoft makes much money off of Windows any more.
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Frankly ive been in the Redhat/Fedora camp for ages and never really understood the interest in Ubuntu. That being said seeing people being laid off sucks royally. We can hope that Shuttlewirth can recover the budiness but i really think Ubuntus favor in the community is coming to an end. Ununtu just doesnt seem to be the hot distro anymore.
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Originally posted by wizard69 View PostFrankly ive been in the Redhat/Fedora camp for ages and never really understood the interest in Ubuntu. That being said seeing people being laid off sucks royally. We can hope that Shuttlewirth can recover the budiness but i really think Ubuntus favor in the community is coming to an end. Ununtu just doesnt seem to be the hot distro anymore.
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Originally posted by Luke_Wolf View PostCanonical has never actually made a profit and has mostly been living off of Shuttleworth's pot of gold, and I'm guessing Shuttleworth's pot of gold is reaching it's end. It's incredibly unlikely therefore that Canonical can turn it around.
This would be the most interesting aspect for an investor, this and the userbase which is still quite large.
What I don't understand is the fact the distros don't want to earn money.
Instead of burning money into Mir or the phone why didn't they create a nice and working app store based on snaps / flatpak?
Why don't the improve the developer experience e.g. write nice documentation for application devs?
With this large userbase they could sell stuff, if they only wanted...
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