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Shuttleworth To Step Down As Canonical CEO In 2010

Posted by timothy on Thursday December 17, 2009 @08:16AM from the orderly-transition dept.

LinuxScribe writes "In a blog announcement today, Canonical Founder and CEO Mark Shuttleworth revealed he will be stepping down from his CEO role to be replaced by current COO Jane Silber. Both execs do not see major strategic changes on the horizon. Silber's official blog and Linux.com each have more details on how the change will be implemented."

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Re:Thanks Mark by daveime · 2009-12-17 08:50 · Score: 0, Flamebait

and allows easy addition of third-party package repositories containing virus-laden screensavers amongst other goodies. FTFY.
Wasn't the whole point of the "secure" package repositories that not just any old schmo could operate one. If so, how is Ubuntu anymore secure than Windows where you can download any old crap from any website ?