Is this part of a patent deal between Microsoft and Canonical? Or why would Canonical help them - that' s the only explanation that makes sense. We all know how it works out for companies sleeping in bed with a huge corporation... either the buy you, do an inside job trojan horse style, or compete against you. (Cyanogen, Nokia, Xamarin, Yahoo, Sun, RedHat, Google, Apple, etc) If they buy Canonical and/or RedHat, I would drop Ubuntu/RedHat in a second and would advise everyone to switch to Debian or another independent community driven distro.
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