I'm also not clear as to what Canonical's main target audience is, but I think it's great that finally someone has the balls to stand up and take lead.
PG once said that design is the limiting edge of open source, which seems true empirically. It looks like Mark Shuttleworth recognises this and has led more progress in Linux land recently than anyone else. He's had to pay the price of upsetting some purists, but I'd rather have that than keep acting nice and have Linux play catch up to other operating systems forever.
In fact, I think Canonical has still ended up too conservative by choosing the services business.
Only a proper product business can give Linux a fighting chance in the consumer market. I'm trying to create one.
PG once said that design is the limiting edge of open source, which seems true empirically. It looks like Mark Shuttleworth recognises this and has led more progress in Linux land recently than anyone else. He's had to pay the price of upsetting some purists, but I'd rather have that than keep acting nice and have Linux play catch up to other operating systems forever.
In fact, I think Canonical has still ended up too conservative by choosing the services business.
Only a proper product business can give Linux a fighting chance in the consumer market. I'm trying to create one.