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I have a friend working at Canonical, and whenever he introduces himself he always includes a brief mention that Canonical makes Ubuntu. I felt it’s very strang
by uranusjr 8y ago
I have a friend working at Canonical, and whenever he introduces himself he always includes a brief mention that Canonical makes Ubuntu. I felt it’s very strange (and certainly felt it a little offensive when I first knew him), but came to understand it after a while. It is not common for people to make connection between Canonical and Ubuntu (even IT people!). He needs to establish himself, otherwise many people won’t take him seriously when he talks about Linux stuff. It’s quite unfortunate.
- mprev 8y agoWhy did it feel offensive?
- scoutt 8y agoI wonder if someone working at Alphabet Inc. suffers the same anonymity.
- vanderZwan 8y agoArguably that disconnect is intentional (not for the employees, but for the companies under the Alphabet umbrella themselves)
- majewsky 8y agoAlphabet is only a holding. I wouldn't expect many people to work for Alphabet directly.
- andrewshadura 8y ago‘Yes, I work for Collabora. No, I'm not a LibreOffice expert. Oh, we do pretty much everything with Linux but LibreOffice, they're a separate company actually.’