Mark Shuttleworth Apologizes for the Trademark Infringement Letter Sent to Fixubuntu.com | Linux Today

Mark Shuttleworth Apologizes for the Trademark Infringement Letter Sent to Fixubuntu.com

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 10, 2013

Mark Shuttleworth has apologized for the letter sent to the owner of fixubuntu.com, saying that anyone who wants to criticize Ubuntu is free to do so. Canonical published an explanations on its website, but the situation must have been worse than previous imagined. Mark Shuttleworth himself has apologized for the letter in a Google+ post.

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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