Ubuntu Summit The Register FOSS desk sat down with Canonical’s vice-president for engineering, Jon Seager, during Ubuntu Summit earlier this month. This is a heavily condensed version of our conversation.

  • woelkchen@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    In reality, every time you add another store, you are essentially giving those people root on your machine.

    Shuttleworth made the exact claim like 10 or so years ago about Ubuntu not being a democracy and Canonical being root on all Ubuntu machines.

    Is it a line in their internal 10 commandments?

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      3 hours ago

      It was an idea he wrote about once for a high school homework assignment, and he got an A on it. (/s for people not familiar with Canonical’s weird obsession with employee highschool performance)