“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”.”