Ubuntu will eventually fade away, Canonical will run out of money. Have you ever noticed every project they have: Mir, Phone, Unity, Bazaar, Launchpad Are all

Ubuntu will eventually fade away, Canonical will run out of money. Have you ever noticed every project they have: Mir, Phone, Unity, Bazaar, Launchpad Are all virally licensed, lack portability and drive people away in droves? Ubuntu has the widest gap in users : developers, yet they're funded. Now: - So long Debian compatibility. That's the one principal thing Ubuntu had going for it. - Exodus / dam-breaks: I see Mint moving to Debian, as well as many {K,L,X}ubuntu developers. "Enough". - It's GPLv3. So there goes a lot of developers / potential for portability. Just like Mir. You can't write modules for GPLv3 software. Commercial vendors will be scared away from investing in it. What do you really gain by using such a restrictive license? Can you see it means we have to rewrite everything over again from scratch in a permissive one?