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Canonical have never made their financial structure public so we can't judge what is actually going on with revenues and expenditures. It is certainly the case
by rogerbinns 14y ago
Canonical have never made their financial structure public so we can't judge what is actually going on with revenues and expenditures. It is certainly the case that they have a large staff (there are six members of the community team alone) and I recall past claims that half of Canonical employees were working on Launchpad!
What is happening is that Ubuntu is going through the normal lifecycle of Linux distributions. They all start out because existing distributions are not paying attention to detail, and have a close focus. Then success broadens scope and spreads people out thinner and thinner. This inevitably means paying less attention to detail and leads the formation of new distributions, and a repeat of the cycle.
A sample of one (myself) is eagerly awaiting a distribution paying attention to detail to replace Ubuntu on my systems.
- graue 14y agoI've been hearing good things about Elementary: http://elementaryos.org/discover http://elementaryos.org/discover
- levesque 14y agoInteresting design decisions although a lot seem to be simply based on OSX. However the user experience is lacking - it is very buggy.
- elteto 14y agoNever heard of it before yet it looks really good!! One thing though, I would really like distro's to distance themselves from the Apple look-n-feel. I think UI innovation only happens if people is willing to try different approaches. But at the same time I realize am not the normal user, I guess that if it brings more novice users to Linux is a good thing in the end.
- sek 14y agoUbuntu is since almost 8 years the only relevant third option for operating systems for PC's. That is huge and more and more software is written for Windows, OSX and Linux (Chrome/Spotify/Steam). They are pretty persistent in my opinion. Windows 8 will also alienate a lot of users, even if it is going to be a success. Shuttleworth has always the chance to go public and raise a lot of money, but he didn't so far. He will when there is a opportunity window in the enterprise or consumer space. It's not incredible right now, but they are doing fine i guess.
- comice 14y agoProbably important to note here that Shuttleworth is extremely wealthy and he funded the Ubuntu foundation with ten million dollars as an emergency fund if Canonical ever had to stop supporting it. He's always said he wanted to make Canonical a sustainable company though.
- rbanffy 14y agoNo other OS has wallpaper pictures taken from space by someone directly involved in making it. It takes the "vacation pictures" concept o a whole new level.