Shuttleworth steps down as Ubuntu CEO • Hacker News Board

Re: Shuttleworth steps down as Ubuntu CEO

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Post by andrewcooke » Thu, Dec 17, 2009, 10:39 PM UTC

dagw wrote: post #16

jrockway wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or Canonical will do to Ubuntu what Novel did to SuSE. Ever hear of SuSE anymore? Neither has anyone else...

I actually use OpenSuSE as my main distro of choice, but I get your point. The problem was that once Novell swallowed SuSE there was no one around to really push or advocate SuSE. Novell took the bits they needed and spat out the rest for the "community" do to what they want with. No one at Novell really had any interest in SuSE Hopefully Mark continuously advocating and fighting for Ubuntu and still being closely in…

most linux users i know, apart from that use centos because it's work-mandated (poor souls), use opensuse, but i am in an odd part of the world (chile).

Re: Shuttleworth steps down as Ubuntu CEO

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Post by mst » Fri, Dec 18, 2009, 1:01 AM UTC

dagw wrote: post #4

This could be a good thing for both Ubuntu and Canonical. From what I've seen/read/heard Shuttleworth never showed much interest in Canonical the company and spent all his time evangelizing Ubuntu the distribution. By getting someone with more interest in the business side of things running the business side things hopefully Canonical can grow into whatever it was hoping to grow into. This will also leave Mark with m…

Sounds to me like Mark's basically delegated all the stuff he didn't care about to somebody who not only cares but probably has a better skill set to do it. Seems like a great plan to me.

Re: Shuttleworth steps down as Ubuntu CEO

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Post by nailer » Fri, Dec 18, 2009, 10:13 AM UTC

dagw wrote: post #4

This could be a good thing for both Ubuntu and Canonical. From what I've seen/read/heard Shuttleworth never showed much interest in Canonical the company and spent all his time evangelizing Ubuntu the distribution. By getting someone with more interest in the business side of things running the business side things hopefully Canonical can grow into whatever it was hoping to grow into. This will also leave Mark with m…

I think it's definitely a good thing. I've been out a couple of times with Canonical staff and their partners, both are amazed at Shuttleworth's general attitude towards profitability - he's in it for the love, and is content to keep losing money. It's his money, so fair enough, but there's a lot of concern about it running out sometime.

I do wonder what the point of desktop OSs are though. It seems in the fight between various desktop OSs, the desktop OS itself is losing, and the browser is winning.

Re: Shuttleworth steps down as Ubuntu CEO

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