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Mark Shuttleworth Steps In On Developers’ Ubuntu Kerfuffle

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Mar 11, 2013

There is no question that times are changing for Canonical and Ubuntu. Ubuntu phones are imminent, Ubuntu TV continues to take shape, Canonical is focused on enterprise users — and the list of sea changes goes on and on. This caused Ubuntu community members and developers to raise some red flags at the recent Ubuntu Developer Summit. “I am concerned because I feel my time and contributions might go to waste and fall on deaf ears,” wrote one developer. “Is my work still relevant because it has nothing to do with a cell phone, nothing to do with a display server, and nothing that in any w

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