Canonical pulls the plug on Kubuntu
Basil Chupin
blchupin at iinet.net.au
Wed Feb 8 03:48:44 UTC 2012
On 08/02/12 14:26, Leslie Anne Chatterton wrote:
>
> Basil,
>
> As I understand it Canonical makes nothing from any of their distros
> directly. Their income stream comes from selling support, mainly to
> corporate users, although anyone can buy a package. We are simply the
> alpha (for the truly adventurous), beta (for the curious) and final
> release testers. In return for the dedicated few filing bug reports
> the rest of us get a good product at an unbeatable price. MS must be
> green with envy that Canonical doesn't have to pay people to test
> their software!
>
> For reasons not made public Mark S. et al believe that Ubuntu is the
> platform most acceptable to the big market so it gets the lion's share
> of attention.
>
Thank you for your input and explanation which is greatly appreciated.
> Sent from my Motorola Xoom Android tablet
>
I am wondering: does this Android tablet of yours use Ubuntu or Kubuntu?
Asking because this is the first time I am "hearing" about this Motorola
tablet.
BC
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