Mark Shuttleworth Is Indeed Taking Back Over As Canonical CEO

[Noee]

The girl said she will still be in board of directors, so it's a nope.

As a general rule of thumb, managment is the last kind of emplyee to be fired, well after engineers.

That's not really how it works when a "replaced" CEO moves to a board position. Typically, it's either a face-saving maneuver or it's a form of loosely connected "golden handcuffs". Depends on if the individual has anything more to offer and the board actually wants it. And really, there is no real salary as a board member. There is, however, a distribution, which is typically a token amount, paid once yearly, much like a dividend. In this case, sounds to me like they've given out a board position with an already-agreed-upon exit date from the board as well.

[microcode]

I think not. There is no coincidence in an enterprise. Maybe we can consider Jane has failed in its role, and that's why Mark recover the leadership.

It's hard to say. Her résumé is pretty impressive though. VP at General Dynamics C4 Systems (before they were folded in to form General Dynamics Mission Systems), pretty high-performance firm.

[bison]

Does the timing here mean anything?

Mark is CEO until early 2010, Jane becomes CEO, Ubuntu Unity is introduced in 10.10
All of the lifespan of Ubuntu's Unity.
Mark announces Unity will be abandoned, Mark Announces he is taking over for Jane.

Coincidence? I'm just curious.

It's part of the game. If you're CEO, CIO, COO, or any other kind of "chief," you're expected to fall on your sword when something goes really wrong.

[ElderSnake]

Could you please also get rid of Gnome 3 then? Either go for Mate, XFCE or Cinnamon. (;

Nice b8 m8

[mbello]

CEOs often "fall up". When she exits the board later on, it won't be newsworthy. It is a soft, sugared exit.

[ldo17]

"Make Ubuntu great again"

“We want our distro back!” ... MIREXIT!!!

[sarmad]

"Make Ubuntu great again"

hahaha... post of the day

[sarmad]

Could you please also get rid of Gnome 3 then? Either go for Mate, XFCE or Cinnamon. (;

I am hoping that one day Ubuntu can manage to make the DE a snap, and then they can put all those DEs in the same distro and have the users select their preferred DE during installation.

[Alejandro Nova]

"Make Ubuntu great again"

Turn the whole thing into a Fedora remix, and we're set

[calc]

Does the timing here mean anything?

Mark is CEO until early 2010, Jane becomes CEO, Ubuntu Unity is introduced in 10.10
All of the lifespan of Ubuntu's Unity.
Mark announces Unity will be abandoned, Mark Announces he is taking over for Jane.

Coincidence? I'm just curious.

No coincidence, Mark stepped down as CEO to have more time to work on Unity / convergence. It had already been in the early stages at that point as UNR since around 2007 (originally OEM only) but he wanted to push it harder.