Re: Ubuntu development

From: Joshua J. Kugler <joshua@eeinternet.com>
Date: Fri Jun 02 2006 - 09:34:27 AKDT

On Friday 02 June 2006 08:50, Damien Hull wrote:
> <snip>
> Shuttleworth is funding Ubuntu, including flying 70 developers to their
> dev meetings every 6 months, in places all over the world. That's some
> serious money being poured into this. On top of that, they are building
> a customer support center in Montreal, to handle professional support.
> Doesn't sound like a fly-by-nite operation to me.
> <snip>
>
>
> Where is Shuttleworth getting the money?

He founded Thawte Consulting, which Verisign eventually bought. He's, shall
we say, "loaded."

> Does this mean Ubuntu is here to stay?

I sure hope so. I'm using Kubuntu on my desktop and I love it. Not going
back (Sorry Mandriva) for me.

j

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