[GTALUG] ​Microsoft and Canonical partner to bring Ubuntu to Windows 10 | ZDNet

[Evan Leibovitch]

On 2 April 2016 at 04:32, D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh at mimosa.com> wrote:

Now another question: why is Canonical doing this?
>

​That's easy.

The business model for Canonical (as it is for any mainstream distro) is to
make money from the human factors surrounding FOSS (training, support,
documentation)​.

The link with MS offers new opportunities for the Linux services company
that knows more about the MS/Linux integration than any other.

- Evan
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