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Canonical Has Been Weathering The Pandemic Well: Turned A Profit, Back Above 500 Employees
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In fact, of the three best known historical Linux software companies (Red Hat, SUSE, Canonical), Canonical is the only one to have had financial problems in recent years.
To my knowledge Red Hat and SUSE are doing very well, however happy that Canonical is starting to work too.
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Originally posted by ElectricPrism View PostI'm not sure how it is in the UK, but in the US -- Smart Companies purposely ensure their profits are close to $0 or negative to avoid paying taxes.
Take for example Starbucks in their earlier years consistently paid $0 is in taxes, the money they would have paid their made sure to reinvest into the company opening new locations to ensure a deficit.
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Originally posted by Charlie68 View PostIn fact, of the three best known historical Linux software companies (Red Hat, SUSE, Canonical), Canonical is the only one to have had financial problems in recent years.
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Originally posted by Charlie68 View Post... Canonical is the only one to have had financial problems in recent years. ...
.... however happy that Canonical is starting to work too.
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Originally posted by Vasant1234 View Post
Yes, they wasted a lot of time and money on their Linux desktop dream. Now that they have scaled back their desktop efforts, they are doing financially better.
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Originally posted by michaelo2 View PostGreat news, if they play they cards correctly, they've lot of market to gain.
And by market I mean compare to Red Hat: Red Hat is ~18K employees, hired +500 people ("a full Canonical") during the worst COVID period and revenue is +4B (30x times what Canonical does).
If anyone's interested in something new career wise, I recommend checking out the jobs page: https://www.redhat.com/en/jobs
Cheers,
MikeLast edited by mroche; 18 July 2021, 10:01 PM.
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Originally posted by Vasant1234 View PostYes, they wasted a lot of time and money on their Linux desktop dream.
At a minimum, they learnt many lessons (most importantly, "Don't put yourself in a position where your largest competitor can royally shaft your plans if they choose to"), and for all that I skipped Unity entirely it was still hugely superior to GNOME3 in terms of UI design. So no, that's not "wasted time and money", that's "doing a decent job, and things just not working out". It happens.
Mir was potentially a reasonable alternative to Wayland that AFAICT died more because of its (stupid, greedy, MBAtard-style) "theft" license than for any technical reason. Given that Wayland is STILL inadequate even now, ~8 years later, it's pretty hard to argue that the decision to create Mir was actually wrong: just that the execution failed.
Which is pretty much Ubuntu in a nutshell, in a lot of ways. I'm not saying they didn't make a lot of bad decisions - they were naive, they clearly over-extended themselves, and both aspects bit them hard when the revenue needed to grow into those endeavors didn't appear on time: basically, they tried to run before they could walk. But now that they're profitable and stable again, they may return to trying new things, and we should welcome that: nothing is worse for the Linux ecosystem as a whole than having RH dictate the direction of everything, even for the fanboys who gloss over all the garbage-tier code RH has inflicted on that ecosystem over the years. (In userspace, that is - they do a much better job with their kernel contributions etc).
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Originally posted by arQon View PostBut now that they're profitable and stable again
they may return to trying new things, and we should welcome that
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