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Re:A Thank-You Note to the Hacker News Community from Ubuntu by sciurus on Thursday April 06, 2017 @09:40PM (#14056367)
"It actually takes a significant amount of both balls and goodwill to give up on the product that you invested so much into for the sake of aligning better with your open source community."

They didn't do it to align with the open source community. They did it because Canonical wants outside investors, but potential investors don't think Unity can make money.

https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=14056369

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Re:A Thank-You Note to the Hacker News Community from Ubuntu by henriquemaia on Thursday April 06, 2017 @10:02PM (#14056481)
Why not both? It hasn't to be an either/or type of thing.
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Re:A Thank-You Note to the Hacker News Community from Ubuntu by MR4D on Friday April 07, 2017 @10:48PM (#14065004)
True, but companies don't often come out and say that straight up. Usually they let things die on the vine. I think the OP was trying to say they could have taken the easy way out, but didn't.
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