Mark Shuttleworth on Ubuntu popularity and Canonical profitability
Summary
The latest annual Canonical report, for example, was filed on October 15, 2019, and only covers the companys finances through December 31, 2018. Canonicals numbers dont look as impressive as Red Hats revenue because, Shuttleworth noted, "Ubuntu is much cheaper than RHEL. Beginning with the Ubuntu 20.04 release, Canonical now offers 10 years of support for both the base operating system and 30,000 other associated open-source programs. Dr. Dries Buytaert, co-founder and CTO of Acquia, the Drupal-based content management system (CMS) company observed, businesses turn to open source, because when an "Economic downturn happens, organizations, they have to lower their costs. So when you have to lower your cost, I think open source becomes a much more compelling option compared to typically more expensive proprietary software.
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