iTWire: Ubuntu Begins its Transformation | Linux Today

iTWire: Ubuntu Begins its Transformation

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Sam Varghese
Dec 13, 2006

“Next April, the Ubuntu Foundation will complete three years and
six releases of its GNU/Linux distribution. It will also be the
point at which the project begins to acquire a distinctly
commercial hue.

“It must be noted that Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical,
the company that owns Ubuntu, has never sought to disguise the fact
that Ubuntu will be supported both as a free of cost option and as
a commercial offering…”

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