“At LinuxTag on Saturday, a meeting of Kubuntu and KDE
contributors was held in order to improve the collaboration of both
projects. The aim was to to talk about the common future of both
projects. Jonathan Riddell and Mark Shuttleworth from Canonical
attended the meeting. Later in his keynote speech to the
conference, Mark publicly committed to Kubuntu as an essential
product for Canonical and showed his commitment by wearing a KDE
t-shirt.“At the beginning of the meeting, Mark outlined Canonical’s
vision of the future of Ubuntu Linux and the role of Kubuntu and
KDE therein. Canonical wants to create a free, professional
economic eco-system and help to develop and transport KDE’s vision
of the future of the free desktop…”