Has GNOME rejected Canonical help? Shuttleworth Responds | Linux Today

Has GNOME rejected Canonical help? Shuttleworth Responds

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 10, 2011

“Ubuntu Founder and former CEO of Canonical, Mark Shuttleworth
responds to Dave Neary’s post entitled “Has GNOME rejected
Canonical help?”

“When Canonical made the decision to make Unity the default
desktop some questioned the GNOME/Canonical relationship. Adding
fuel to this fire was the recent distribution split of revenue
generated by Banshee. These decisions caused the Ubuntu, GNOME and
even Fedora community members to ask why these things were done. In
Neary’s “Has GNOME rejected Canonical help?” post he states, I have
repeatedly read Canonical & Ubuntu people say “We offered our
help to GNOME, and they didn’t want it”.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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