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Kubuntu gets a new sponsor

Kubuntu gets a new sponsor

Posted May 4, 2012 7:13 UTC (Fri) by geuder (subscriber, #62854)
In reply to: Kubuntu gets a new sponsor by terber
Parent article: Kubuntu gets a new sponsor

> Is that the same Clemens Toennies

From reading the "meat king"'s biography I'd say definitely no.

However, he has a nephew also called Clemens. According to this article http://www.nw-news.de/owl/regionale_wirtschaft/5875170_Fa... the nephew owns 10% of the meat giant, which should be enough to be financially capable to sponsor some open source software. Whether he really is the same guy and whether he really puts meat money into the projects I don't know and I don't want to claim.

a quick search resulted in these sites registered by the same guy: http://www.interstel.de/
http://www.blue-systems.com/
http://jack-n-joe.com/ (and a couple of variants)
http://netrunner-linux.com (*Green* systems)
http://netrunner-os.com

He gives a phone number in the whois records, maybe somebody asks him for an interview and writes an article...


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