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Ubuntu Founder On Microsoft "Challenge" (Red Herring)

[Posted December 31, 2006 by corbet]

The Red Herring interviews Mark Shuttleworth. "Microsoft and others, a lot of them say that free software and open source is all about copying what was being done before in proprietary software, and for a lot of time that was true. The world we are seeing is that, as soon as the free software reaches a point where it's as good as the proprietary software, suddenly all the innovation shifts to the free software."

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That's It for Ubuntu

Posted Dec 31, 2006 22:58 UTC (Sun) by ncm (subscriber, #165) [Link]

The general rule is that anything featured in Red Herring is already past its sell-by date.

I wonder what comes after Ubuntu.

That's It for Ubuntu

Posted Jan 2, 2007 12:46 UTC (Tue) by Cato (subscriber, #7643) [Link]

One interesting thing about Ubuntu is that it seems to be positively encouraging spin-off distributions for education, low-memory systems, and so on. So the next big thing could well be Ubuntu-based, just as Ubuntu is Debian-based.