Comments on: Matt Asay’s Top Priorities and Goals

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Links 2/3/2010: Linux-2.6.33-libre is Released | Boycott Novell — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 02:03:31 +0000

[...] Matt Asay’s Top Priorities and Goals At the beginning of February Matt Asay moved from Alfresco to Canonical, and Matt’s blog activity already reflects his career change and I asked Matt about his top priorities in the new role. It has now been three weeks since I started with Canonical, and each day it becomes clearer to me just how massive is the opportunity before Canonical and the Ubuntu community, as well as the great care that must be taken to ensure that we realize this potential. [...]

By: Joel West

Joel West — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:54:54 +0000

Don,

Matt answers your question: it’s a business, that has lots of potential for growth and profit for its employees and owners. If Canonical increases its market share and installed base, that will increase the viability of Linux as a platform — including the supply of applications and the willingness of firms to consider it as a desktop alternative. But in the end, Jane and Matt’s job is to make a buck.

Joel

By: Don

Don — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:47:41 +0000

Matt, many thanks for your post.

There is no mention here of the messages that were once dear to Canonical’s heart, freedom, free software. Is this vision now to be sacrificed to the alter of enterprise computing?

A really interesting question to answer would be, how does Canonical propose to bring freedom to the cloud?

Some clarity around these topics would be great.