Ubuntu founder joins Linux Foundation board
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| Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical and the Ubuntu version of
| Linux it commercializes, has joined the board of the Linux Foundation.
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http://news.com.com/2061-10795_3-6166830.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news
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Mark Shuttleworth Becomes the First Patron of KDE
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| Mark says of his patronage of KDE, "With the growing
| importance of Kubuntu within the Ubuntu family, the time
| is right to support the project that makes Kubuntu
| possible - KDE. For this and many other reasons, I am
| very proud to become the first of hopefully many
| Patrons of KDE."
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http://dot.kde.org/1160932072/
Shuttleworth: Welcome SUSE Developers
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| Calls are coming from all over the community for users and developers to
| turn their backs on Novell. The latest entreaty is from Canonical's
| Mark Shuttleworth, the folks behind the Ubuntu flavors of Debian.
|
| [...]
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| LiVES no longer supports Suse, since Novell signed a deal with a certain
| well known company. If you are using Suse, please consider moving to
| another distribution.
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http://boycottnovell.com/2006/11/24/shuttleworth-welcome-suse-developers/
Oracle must eat Red Hat or fork, says Ubuntu man
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| "Fundamentally, I think Microsoft is making an intellectual property
| play. The second thing is 'follow the money.' We see $240m from
| Microsoft and $40m back from Novell.
|
| [...]
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| "They are looking to establish, I believe, a framework which gives
| them a revenue base regardless of the OS.
|
| "We haven't seen the details of the deal. Novell hasn't seen the real
| plan. The industry is littered with companies that have fought with
| Microsoft, then went to Microsoft as a cowered partner to do some
| small deal and then just got axed. Palm, Sybase and, um, Novell."
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/10/shuttleworth_oracle/
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