Canonical’s Mark Shuttleworth says he has no plans to sell anytime soon

guest · Nov 14, 2018

Canonical’s Mark Shuttleworth says he has no plans to sell anytime soon
November 14, 2018
https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/13/c...th-says-he-has-no-plans-to-sell-anytime-soon/

After IBM announced its plans to acquire Red Hat for $34 billion, pundits quickly started speculating about when Red Hat competitors like Suse and Canonical would sell, as well. Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth, though, doesn’t seem to have any interest in selling — at least for the time being.

“I value my independence,” he told me during a brief chat on the outskirts of the OpenStack Summit in Berlin today. In part, that’s because he simply doesn’t personally need the money but also because he’d like to see through to the end his vision for Canonical and Ubuntu.

Still, he allowed for one circumstance that would get him to sell: if it allowed him to accelerate his vision for Canonical.
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