[ubuntu-za] Ubuntu and Mozilla, the inevitable alliance

[Hilton Gibson]

Hi

Whatever strategy is taken by them, developers need to eat. So I am
hoping that they find a sustainable financial business model for open
source software projects in the future.

Does anybody on the list have ideas on a sustainable financial
business model for open source software projects ?

Cheers

hg.

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Nic Roets <nroets at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Helge Reikeras <helge.reikeras at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Yeah. Of course, Canonical doesn't own Ubuntu and as such it's not theirs
>> to sell. If Canonical decides to make any decision the community doesn't
>> agree with, the community is free to continue development on it's own
>> (potentially with another sponsor). However, the role played by Canonical
>> might be difficult to replace. I wouldn't be surprised if Google decide to
>> acquire Canonical. As with any acquisition we can only speculate what the
>> implication for the current values and culture at Canonical will be.
>
> It's not going to happen: The Google people are hardnosed businessmen. The
> only reason why they are in Open Source is to make it difficult for
> companies closer to the end user to replace their default search provider.
> Companies closer to the end user include telcos, hardware manufacturers,
> even MS.
>
> Furthermore, if Google buys Canonical or take a lead role in Ubuntu, they
> can seriously damage their brand if something goes wrong in Linux land and
> they did not do their best to stop it.
>
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