Interview with Mark Shuttleworth in Heise Online

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 05:31:08PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 11:52:10AM +0100, Paul Sladen wrote:
> > In fact, very soon I think the number of support, admin and business
> > personel at Canonical are going to out-number the Ubuntu developers!
> 
> If you're counting Launchpad development as support here, this happened
> a long time ago. I think the last time when the distro team made up a
> majority of the company was at the London meeting in April 2004,
> assuming that Thom was counted as distro rather than sysadmin; that made
> it 8 out of 14.

By the time of the Oxford meeting in August 2004, there were 29
employees attending, of whom I think only 10 were distro.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]