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  • Editor's Note: Whose Rules, Free or Proprietary? (Shuttleworth & Ubuntu Sell Out to Linspire)

    02/10/2007 3:03:51 PM PST · by bigdcaldavis · 16 replies · 492+ views
    Linux Today ^ | Feb 9, 2007 | Brian Proffitt
    Apparently, lot of people are thrilled with the whole idea of Canonical and Linspire's technology partnership announced yesterday, citing source code consolidation, non-redundant development efforts, and just good karma about the whole deal. I, for one, am not one of those people. Initially, my big problem was worry for the Debian Project. Under the terms of the new partnership (which, for the purposes of this article I will deem "Linbutu" because I am getting lazy in my middle age), the Linspire and Freespire distributions will be based on Ubuntu, not Debian GNU/Linux. Ubuntu, in turn, gets supported access to Linspire's...