Re: Meh!
I think their plan is to monetise support and provide things like the Orange Box as well. They seem to be getting pretty big in the OpenStack space and already have some pretty big deployments out there so I'd say there is some source of revenue there. Their concept for the desktop seems to be turning it into a unified endpoint platform.
Shuttleworth seems to be playing the long term strategy with Canonical, I guess a little like Bezos does with Amazon.
This is all speculation through observation though. And I am little offended by the AC. I pay for proprietary software where it works well. Ubuntu also happens to provide a great desktop experience at no cost, and like most Linux distros it's very modular which makes it extremely easy to customise for a variety of situations.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
