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Banshee Amazon Store disabled in Ubuntu 11.04 by Canonical (Network World)Banshee Amazon Store disabled in Ubuntu 11.04 by Canonical (Network World)Posted Feb 16, 2011 21:56 UTC (Wed) by jspaleta (subscriber, #50639)In reply to: Banshee Amazon Store disabled in Ubuntu 11.04 by Canonical (Network World) by leomilano Parent article: Banshee Amazon Store disabled in Ubuntu 11.04 by Canonical (Network World)
If Ubuntu was a non-profit and Shuttleworth's expenditures were in fact a donation into such a non-profit, you'd have a valid point. But that's not the situation.
Canonical is not a charity, Ubuntu is not a charity, and the money Shuttleworth is spending to keep Canonical afloat is not a donation. Canonical is a for-profit business entity that manages the wholly subsidiary Ubuntu project. To suggest that the money Shuttleworth has invested into Canonical and into Ubuntu is a donation is to grossly mischaracterize the reality of the situation.
A would daresay that if the structure of relationship between Ubuntu and Canonical were different....more Mozilla-like where the for-profit was a subsidiary of a non-profit... operations and business focus would be better aligned towards a more straight-forwardly stated social benefit and things would be clearer for everyone on how to ethically move towards that goal.
-jef
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