Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 6th Mar 2006 21:52 UTC, submitted by anonymous
"It was recently annouced that desktop Linux's golden child, Ubuntu, may begin to offer Linspire's Click-N-Run service. This story which hit the internet just a few days ago is big news for the desktop Linux community. Ubuntu, which is the most popular Linux distribution (according to DistroWatch) has had a profound impact on the desktop operating system industry and any move it makes is going to be a critical one. Overall, feelings about this are understandably mixed."
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2006-03-07
I see the most likely outcome as follows. CNR would be a service that Linspire, not Canonical, offers Ubuntu users. I imagine that the revenue for Canonical would come from the significant integration effort. Ubuntu package maintainers would continue their work as if nothing has happened, and if any are offered lucrative employment by Linspire they would be replaced by someone from the considerably sized community which minimizes the disturbance.
This in no way compromises Ubuntu's principles. Their acceptance of revenue from Linspire for integration would be part of their original goal of making Ubuntu sustainable and less dependent upon Mr Shuttleworth. I hardly see this as an enterprise fork.
I for one would like to get legal codecs and deals like discounted Crossover from CNR onto my Ubuntu desktop.