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Canonical and Microsoft: Is Sustaining a Business Better than Turning a Profit Right Now? [OStatic]
GigaOM Network —
The New York Times ran a piece this Sunday featuring Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth. Though a majority of the piece was biographical, and the rest wasn't exactly the picture of accuracy in its portrayal of Ubuntu (or Linux in general), there were a few interesting figures.
It gives pause to wonder how, in this economy, and in an ever-changing industry, profit still gets much better press than growth.
The Times reports Canonical is approaching the $30 million a year mark in terms of ...
Canonical and Microsoft: Is Sustaining a Business Better than Turning a Profit Right Now?
OStatic blogs —
The New York Times ran a piece this Sunday featuring Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth. Though a majority of the piece was biographical, and the rest wasn't exactly the picture of accuracy in its portrayal of Ubuntu (or Linux in general), there were a few interesting figures.
It gives pause to wonder how, in this economy, and in an ever-changing industry, profit still gets much better press than growth.
The Times reports Canonical is approaching the $30 million a year mark in terms of revenue, and Shuttleworth feels that ...
Windows 7 The Linux killer and Ubuntu Going Mainstream
PR News: —
... Ubuntu and its leader (Mark Shuttleworth) have plans of going mainstream, it’s his view that “the open process produces better stuff” and Ubuntu has amazed many at it’s success in a Windows marketplace. You can read the full details of this meeting at Google HQ and why Ubuntu could make a lot more ground on Windows over at nytimes. ...
Ubuntu takes on Microsoft in a full-frontal assault
The Open Road —
... Microsoft's hegemony depends upon two cash cows: Windows and Office. Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Ubuntu, has his sights firmly set on Windows, and has both the means, the chutzpah, and the community to credibly commandeer an assault on Fortress Redmond, as suggested by Ashlee Vance in The New York Times ... ...
Every project needs an entrepreneur
Open Source —
... governance lain by Michael Meeks bring up a follow-up question, namely, how should open source projects be governed?
Boards and committees are fine. Structure is a necessity. Transparency is obvious.
The real question is, should there be a name on the door, someone who takes the place of the CEO or (better still) the entrepreneur at a proprietary company?
Making this question more urgent is a New York Times feature on Ubuntu’s entrepreneur, Mark Shuttleworth (above).
The piece makes clear that Shuttleworth’s passion is not driven ...
The New York Times On Ubuntu: Half-Right
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs —
... Windows. Take your pick ", then I'm fairly sure I'm not about to read a good article about any of the above. But that's the first line of a piece in, incredibly, the New York Times about them. Part of me remains unsurprised by the continually quizzical tenor of mass-media coverage of open source, for the same reason that their coverage of most anything technology-related tends to be lousy. Finer nuances get scrubbed down or ignored entirely, and hard-won distinctions are blurred. The article in question -- "A Software Populist Who Doesnt Do Windows " -- at least gets many of ...
French Lawmakers Hope to Inspire Linux Revolution
Bits —
If the French National Assembly gets its way, the open-source Linux operating system will take over the governments of Europe, seizing on a weak economy to displace Windows. About 18 months ago, the Assembly shifted from running Windows on the 1,100 computers of its members and their assistants to running a version of Linux called Ubuntu. (I profiled the rise of Ubuntu in a recent article .) According to Rudy Salles, vice president of the assembly, the decision to abandon Microsoft’s Windows software was both an economic and political gesture. The ...
Linux desktop neglect
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols's blog —
... ." Of course, Canonical is more than happy to support Dell and other hardware vendors that want to provide Ubuntu to their customers. But, Shuttleworth is much more changing the world with a free desktop operating system than fighting for desktop market share. ...
Open Source Backers March on Washington
Bits —
... the group hopes to make sure that open source software receives the necessary federal nods for use in things like drug approvals and high-security computing projects. Some of the initial members of the organization include Google, Oracle, Red Hat, Advanced Micro Devices, Novell and Canonical. A host of smaller open source software makers are involved as well. The board of advisers is more or less a Who’s Who of open source advocates, including Eben Moglen, a prominent attorney; Mark Shuttleworth, the chief executive of Canonical; Michael Tiemann, a vice president at Red ...
