Moving the goalposts

Not hard to imagine Canonical is in trouble.. i can even imagine that most distros might be in trouble, there is just too many of them, and if the main focus of the enterprise is purely sell software, then they are asking for trouble.

I can think a lot of things, i can be wrong about many things, but i think a re-invention of the model for most of those will be in the order of the day... as example Mandriva is still alive and has a different model... only the forking spree seems more an act of desperation or a "forcing push trough the crowd" than a careful wise move.