New Ubuntu Foundation Announced 315
AccUser writes "Mark Shuttleworth and Canonical Ltd, founders of the popular Ubuntu
Linux-based operating system, have today announced the creation of The
Ubuntu Foundation with an initial funding commitment of US$10m. From the article: 'The Ubuntu Foundation will employ core Ubuntu community members to ensure that Ubuntu will remain fully supported for an extended period of time, and continue to produce new releases of the distribution. As a first step, the Foundation announces that Ubuntu version 6.04, due for release in April 2006, will be supported for three years on the desktop and five years on the server.'"
Re:Oh crikey, not another one! (Score:5, Funny)
I wonder if ... (Score:4, Funny)
Perhaps they could merge (Score:5, Funny)
Ok, so now we have Ubuntu, Gentoo, Suse, Red hat, Mandriva, colinux, Yellow dog, Caldera
If they merged we could have UbunTuseYellowCoDrivaDeraDogHat.
If nothing else the domains should be readily available.
10m$, huh? (Score:3, Funny)
Oh... 10M$!!! Well then.
Re:Start of Something Special (Score:3, Funny)
Let's see... Ubuntu is based on Debian, which takes about three years to put together a new release. Coincidence?
Re:Perhaps they could merge (Score:3, Funny)
If nothing else the domains should be readily available.
Hah. I've been sitting on that one for a while. My pot of gold is so close I can feel it.
Creepy similarities... (Score:2, Funny)
Mark Shuttleworth develops Ubuntu, project never sees profit, helps establish non-profit foundation to oversee distro,
p.s. Good thing for us Shuttleworth appears somewhat solvent.
Re: The smiling women with the pokey nipples (Score:3, Funny)
Great! I can't wait to "employ" the "core" of certain Ubuntu community [ktown.kde.cl] members [rospot.com]!
Re:Careful about those one line summaries (Score:3, Funny)
Give me some credit, it's a pet robot turtle.
With fricken laser beams shooting out of its leg holes.