I think at this point it's only a matter of time before Microsoft acquires Canonical. They've taken great steps to try to own the end-to-end development ecosys

I think at this point it's only a matter of time before Microsoft acquires Canonical. They've taken great steps to try to own the end-to-end development ecosystem. Develop with VS Code, host on Github, deploy to Azure. What OS are people building/deploying most of their software on? Linux and Ubuntu. Everything from local docker dev, CI, and production deployment. For a huge percentage of the developers that Microsoft is targeting Ubuntu is the default choice. They're even shipping it themselves by default in WSL.. Canonical's financials will start to be seen as too risky once Shuttleworth decides to stop funding it out of his pocket. At that point Microsoft will jump in with a check for 50 bil and snatch it up. Then they'll even have their own Linux distro to complete their ecosystem. And they'll probably call it something like Azure Linux.