Red Herring: Linux: Ubuntu Founder On Microsoft "Challenge"

"Q: How are the events in the open source industry in the last few months affecting Ubuntu, if at all?

"A: There were two big strategic announcements that were made this year by non-Linux players. Oracle [said] that they will be providing support for [a version] of Red Hat Linux without the trademark and Microsoft and Novell would collaborate in a number of areas, and that announcement had some interesting intellectual property considerations so those both have been significant for us..."

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