Re: Always certain of a deeper purpose
"Anyone else suspect a "new improved" Canonical very soon with closed source parts and perhaps paid software?"
You can already buy support from Canonical for servers, and, I believe, the administration of large numbers of desktop systems. They make administration systems for large virtualised deployments.
Canonical may 'do a Red Hat' in the future and continue to provide source code under the GPL and charge a subscription for the binary distro and for the other tools. Might be tricky as Ubuntu is built on top of Debian unstable (at least I believe that the Debian Unstable packages are exported and used as a basis for the next Ubuntu release after much bug fixing and patching).
I'm not so sure about closed source/proprietary software but we shall see.
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