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I like the quotes she put up on the screen about Canonical and System76.
I've kept coming back to Ubuntu over the years, but ultimately, they are a corporation, and they need to satisfy their shareholders. Someday they will likely be bought out, then who knows?
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As we all did with winxp, hangout and even facebook, and yeah a whole slew of stuff that did seem nice at one moment.
The next moment it wasn't there any more in the way we liked it!
FOSS on the other hand is here to stay.