Wild Visionary Wants To Turn His Linux Company Into The Next Apple
Sure Red Hat just crested the $1 billion-revenue mark with almost $150 million in profit while Canonical, maker of Ubuntu Linux, still isn't profitable after seven years in business.
Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth says ... so what?
He's got big plans for Canonical and he's trying to solve a bigger problem: can an open source company make money if it always gives its software away for free and only charges for other stuff?
"We're much smaller than Red Hat and our model is very different. We publish free of charge the software that Red Hat would charge for. So their model is more like a traditional proprietary software model," he told Business Insider.
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