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From reading the press release. It appears as if Canonical will just handle support contracts with external companies. Basically they will have a help desk or s
by siver_john 5y ago
From reading the press release. It appears as if Canonical will just handle support contracts with external companies. Basically they will have a help desk or something if those companies/their employees are having issues with Blender. Part of the proceeds from those contracts will then be passed to Blender for it's further development and to fix bugs that may arise in LTS releases of Blender. I do not believe they are hiring developers it looks more like Blender is out sourcing technical support to Canonical with a bit of a kick back.
Seems like a good partnership to me imho, granted I've never worked with Canonical's support.
- indigochill 5y agofwiw, one time I went to their jobs page and it was down. I filed a ticket on their Github repo and was able to follow every single step of the resolution in public. They also were quick to fix it. I don't know if that's indicative of the typical support contract experience with them, but would happily repeat the experience.
- mrintegrity 5y agomy only experience of canonical the company was when one of their technical consultants showed up to a meeting, opened his laptop and it was running windows. Bit disappointing really! Was a few years ago tho
- sangnoir 5y agoTo be fair, Canonical partnered with Microsoft to make Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). Perhaps the consultant was running Ubuntu (on Windows).