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I though Canonical owns Ubuntu. They can policy whatever they want.

• rlpb 14y ago
  No. Ubuntu has its own community governance. Though Canonical does employ a number (perhaps the majority) of Ubuntu developers. Policies are ultimately managed by the Technical Board and the Community Council, both of which have members who are not Canonical employees. Mark Shuttleworth does have ultimate executive rights to do anything he wants, and he does own Canonical. So yes, Mark can set whatever policy he wants. But his use of this veto/executive ability is generally documented and he doesn't use it all that much. Certainly not in the details of MySQL and stable release updates.