Gobuntu Has Already Failed

“I’m disappointed with Canonical. I got all excited when Mark
Shuttleworth announced that Ubuntu ‘Gutsy Gibbon’ would be
available in a super-strict, 100% open source flavor (now called
‘Gobuntu’). Later he clarified this goal:

“a number of comments have asked what Gobuntu is. It is a
flavour of Ubuntu (like Kubuntu or Xubuntu) that is basically the
same desktop environment as Ubuntu (a GNOME desktop) and a very
strict set of restrictions on the licences of code and
content…”

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