[lugm.org] End of Ubuntu desktop (?)

[selven]

OR, this could mean that they decide to add an "ad display" on your ubuntu
desktop :p, not really a bad thing if you think about it, as long as you
have the source and you can disable it :p.

On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 12:20 PM, Loganaden Velvindron <gnukid1 at yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:

> Dear All,
>
>
> http://www.zdnet.com/article/mark-shuttleworth-considering-canonical-ipo/
>
> After reading the news, I think that there's a high probability that
> Ubuntu desktop might be shelved off. Canonical has not been profitable on
> the desktop side, as few PC/laptop manufacturers ship with Ubuntu
> pre-installed.
>
> The second project which will probably be shelved will be Ubuntu on
> smartphones, if they cannot find enough partnership to make it profitable.
>
> Canonical main source of revenue is the Cloud, and it likely that the new
> investors/shareholders will focus on that instead. Back in 2002-2004,
> RedHat abandoned RedHat Linux for the desktop.
>
>
>
>
>
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