Posts Tagged Canonical
Ranking Google
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Linux, Open Source on August 6, 2010
Adam Williamson has a good series of “controversial crap” over on his blog, mainly discussing things related to the recent Red Hat/Canonical kerfuffle (but there are some other interesting bits as well). In his clarification post, this bit caught my attention: The reason I don’t complain much about Microsoft or Apple or Google is that I pretty [...]
Matt Zimmerman on Mono
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Microsoft on April 20, 2010
Interesting interview with Matt Zimmerman, Canonical CTO: UT: Richard M. Stallman had criticized Miguel de Icaza for his participation to Open Source Lab which has been founded by Microsoft. What do you think about that? And in the context of this subject how do you evaluate Mono Project. MZ: Miguel and I have met, but [...]
Canonical COO on Innovation
Posted by Jason in Free Software on March 20, 2010
You don’t innovate if you spend all your time talking and working with people that agree with you. You learn by confronting hard questions and answering them. Canonical has a culture of tackling hard problems, and that starts with serious, critical introspection. I’m just one piece of that, but I’m hardly alone in believing we [...]
Matt Asay joins Canonical
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Novell on February 8, 2010
Big development as Matt Asay recently announced he is coming on board Canonical as the new COO. Good Thing For Mr. Asay, this is a good thing: he will greatly expand his influence, and be able to impose his philosophy on what is arguably the most popular distro. Bad Thing For everyone else, this is [...]
Dell: Microsoft making something out of nothing
Dell’s statement about Linux on netbooks helps to set the record straight.
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