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smoke screen?

smoke screen?

Posted Oct 1, 2008 20:13 UTC (Wed) by bfields (subscriber, #19510)
In reply to: smoke screen? by apokryphos
Parent article: Ubuntu debuts its Upstream Report

a project that actually cost Novell thousands of dollars.

Might want to count those zero's again....


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how many zeroes

Posted Oct 1, 2008 21:12 UTC (Wed) by louie (subscriber, #3285) [Link]

RH and Novell (and to a lesser but still very significant extent) have invested many millions (probably in the low tens of millions at this point) in GNOME, gtk, X, freedesktop, etc.

how many zeroes

Posted Oct 1, 2008 21:14 UTC (Wed) by jspaleta (subscriber, #50639) [Link]

I wonder... how much has Canonical sunk into launchpad specifically over the years?

-jef

how many zeroes

Posted Oct 2, 2008 19:49 UTC (Thu) by louie (subscriber, #3285) [Link]

Hrm, that 'and ____ to a lesser but still significant extent' should have a 'Sun' in the blank there.

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