"It is difficult to see how Zimmerman can continue to stay at the company and work under Mark Shuttleworth. Canonical is the parent company of the Ubuntu GNU/Linux distribution.
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Shuttleworth initially came under fire from open source consultant Kirrily Robert who, having heard about his talk from other sources, decided that she should issue an open letter, asking him to apologise. In this post, Robert made reference to one remark which she claimed was sexist.
"The letter drew the usual point-scoring replies, with more sound than sense emerging.
"Zimmerman, who had been present for the keynote at the LinuxCon conference in Portland, Oregon, added his voice to the debate, with a post on his blog where he said the remark in question was sexist."
