Re: Ubuntu development

Shuttleworth started Thawaite (I think it was) Security and sold it to
Verisign for a few hundred million.

Craig McCaw (Clearwire) did better though. He was McCaw Communications,
the original Cellular One and McCaw Comm. up here. He sold to AT&T for 3
billion.

Jim G

Damien Hull wrote:
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> I started a big debate on the LTSP list about distributions. Here's a
> snip from a post on the stability of the Ubuntu project.
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> <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?
> Does this mean Ubuntu is here to stay?
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Received on Mon Jun 5 08:43:40 2006