F It seems Mark Zuckerberg (founder and CEO of Facebook) is not done shopping just yet. After buying F WhatsApp and Oculus Rift, Mark Zuckerberg’s next F target is Canonical, parent company F of world’s most popular Linux distribution Ubuntu. F This is revealed in an exclusive report by F Business Insider.
F When asked about Facebook’s intention behind Ubuntu’s acquisition, F Zuckerberg said:
F “…At Facebook, we always supported Open Source. We saved $1 billion F by switching to F Open Source servers last year. We used the saved F F revenue to buy Oculus”
F But
when he was further probed on why buy F Ubuntu in particular when
Facebook could F have started its own Linux distribution, Mark answered:
F “…Look, Facebook tried to pitch its F own smartphone and failed mF iserably. While Mark Shuttleworth tried to raise fund F for an Ubuntu smartphone and failed similarly. Ubuntu wants the convergence between F desktop and mobile device and this is F where our ideology converged to each other.”F
F But
that is just the phony tip of the iceberg. Apparently in a world where F hardware giants like Motorola (sold for $3 bn) and Blackberry (sold for
$5 bn)F fail to match the price of a smartphone app (WhatsApp sold for
$19 bn),F you realize its not ‘innovation’ but ‘information’ that is the USP of a tech company.F
F Since Ubuntu 12.10, Canonical is integrating Amazon in
its ‘free and open source’ operating system regardless of if Amazon
operates F in a particular user’s country or not. Several other third parties also feed on the users’ private data.F Even after one and half-year, not many people seem to even bothered about turning off Amazon F search and
this has only strengthen Canonical’s determination. Few privacy critics
raised this issue but were intimated in one way or other by ‘less-than-a-month-at-Canonical employees‘.F
F “You see”, Zuckerberg winked, “Linux is free. $3 billion is for Ubuntu’s USP”.F
F When
asked whether this deal will raise a great deal of hue and cry, Mark
Shuttleworth told that they have hired a bunch of
“less-than-a-month-at-V Canonical” employees.F
F Read the complete story at Business Insider F
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