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Canonical (Ubuntu), and SUSE as well.
by roymurdock 10y ago
Canonical (Ubuntu), and SUSE as well.
- dragonquest 10y agoSurely, not SuSe. Novell didn't really handle that well.
- nerdponx 10y agoRStudio seems successful so far as well.
- nickpsecurity 10y agoI thought Canonical was losing money.
- AsyncAwait 10y agoI am pretty sure they've been in the black, but not by much, for some time.
- nickpsecurity 10y agoIt was losing tens of millions just a few years ago to try to get into mobile. The financials are also private. Doesn't leave me much to go on. :)
- AsyncAwait 10y agoAh yes, that may be it, I am fairly sure they were in the black for a while from their cloud services, but they probably blew that on their push to mobile.
- nickpsecurity 10y agoThe same article said they were approaching break-even before the mobile push. So maybe, maybe not. It's clear they could do it if they wanted to. It seems to have mostly lost money that Shuttleworth put into it out of his pocket, though. That's too bad because I like what they've done in terms of usability of Linux outside Unity. I switched to Mint at that point until the distro got subverted way too easily. Then back to Ubuntu with shitty Unity. I can't wait for the new one without it that was just announced since the mobile thing didn't pan out.
- SEJeff 10y agoCanonical isn't really profitable and much of SUSE's stuff is actually proprietary from the days of Novell.
- bhdn 10y agoWhat is this much of proprietary stuff from Novell?
- psankar 10y agoWhich SUSE Stuff is proprietary ? SUSE Linux Enterprise editions have been always open. They are built on top of the openSUSE platform.
- SEJeff 10y agoAll of the Open Enterprise Server stuff, which is one of their big moneymakers.