Canonical Plans a Version-Tracking Tool for Devs

Posted by timothy on Sunday May 1, 2005 @04:33PM from the even-fresher-meat dept.

daria42 writes "Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, has started work on a new project which aims to make easier for Linux developers to find the latest open source software updates, no matter which distribution they are contributing to. The effort encompasses distributed bug tracking, revision control, language translations and more. Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth wants Ubuntu to take advantage of the software, saying: 'As the framework [for using code from across the community] sets, hopefully we are at the centre of it. Further down the pipeline we may need to differentiate on other grounds.'"

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Re:Money can be a very usefull tool by mabhatter654 · 2005-05-01 18:28 · Score: 0, Offtopic

really, it's not like MS makes a profit from every endevor they try... haven't they lost another $100 million on X-box... again... just to get a lock on the market. It's good to have the long term plan to develop something good rather than just another "product"