[emarcotte]

It's not about distributions, it's about companies. Canonical is not a for-profit, publicly traded company so it doesn't really fit this comparison between sun, redhat and novel.

[rmc]

Canonical are a for-profit company IIRC, however they are not publically traded and not "cash flow positive" ;)

[seabee]

Not sure why you were downvoted, it's called "Canonical Ltd." and besides, you can't trade stock in a not-for-profit company; parent was way off the mark.

[pingswept]

I think emarcotte was wrong about "for-profit," but right about "not . . . publicly traded."

[seabee]

You're right; I mentally transposed 'not a', which gives the sentence a different spin.