Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 8th Feb 2007 20:52 UTC
Canonical Ltd., the sponsor of Ubuntu, and Linspire Inc. the developer of Linspire and Freespire, on February 8 announced a technology partnership to integrate with each other's Linux distributions. Linspire/Freespire will be based on Ubuntu, rather than Debian, and Ubuntu will integrate with Linspire's CNR package installer/updater.
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2005-11-05
What does Canonical get out of this? On the surface, it seems that it is only Linspire that profits from the association.
Canonical get a fast-track to one-click installation of proprietary and/or pay-for apps on the Linux desktop. This is in line with Mark Shuttleworth's aim of making the next version of Ubuntu really multimedia-savvy, and it further solidifies Ubuntu's rep as the desktop Linux of choice for non-tech types and those arriving from Windows. Canonical also get to add the Linspire outfit to their growing portfolio of derivative distros, perhaps bound to Canonical's proprietary Launchpad bug-tracker.
So I'd say Canonical get quite a lot from this, aside from whatever financial details may be involved. As always, though, one might ask whether what is good for Ubuntu is necessarily good for everyone else. We've yet to hear any reaction from Debian, for example, or from competitors to Ubuntu like OpenSuSE.