How Canonical Stays on the Light Side

“The story thus far for Canonical:

“Young successful South African entrepreneur wants to give back
to the technology that helped make him successful in the first
place. He and a team of developers build a Linux distribution based
on Debian GNU/Linux. He also starts a commercial company, the
aforementioned Canonical, to help support and build an
infrastructure around the distribution, known to the world as
Ubuntu. Ubuntu grows in popularity, and becomes one of the premier
desktop-oriented distros.

“Most of us have heard this story before. Young cosmonaut makes
it big in the rough and tumble world of the penguin. But now, in
the midst of Canonical’s first big event, the question becomes:
where do Canonical–and Ubuntu–go from here…?”

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