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I think we all owe a lot to Debian. I know there are a lot of high quality distros out there but most silicon valley companies I know use either Debian or Ubunt

I think we all owe a lot to Debian. I know there are a lot of high quality distros out there but most silicon valley companies I know use either Debian or Ubuntu which is ultimately based on Debian. It is just that one never consciously thinks about Debian and Ubuntu as non-profit services they've been using unlike for example Wikipedia. We should change that!

Operyl 8y ago
Eh .. while Debian is non profit Canonical most definitely is not. While they reinvest a ton of their profits back into Ubuntu, as far as I know they’re still in it to make money.
- magpi3 8y ago
  Debian is a non-profit, but it is also a volunteer run organization and many of those volunteers work at companies (Ubuntu being one of them) that are for profit and depend on the development of Linux for that profit.
- tormeh 8y ago
  Kind of. I think Canonical is losing money on purpose, because Shuttleworth really likes the desktop Linux dream.
  - Operyl 8y ago
    They ended up turning a profit year after they dropped Unity and the team involved, I believe. But otherwise, Shuttleworth definitely does reinvest most of the profits.
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