Canonical pulls Kubuntu personnel funding

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Submission + - Canonical pulls Kubuntu personnel funding (itworld.com)

Submitted by LinuxScribe on Monday February 06, 2012 @09:33PM

LinuxScribe writes: An announcement on the Kubuntu-devel mailing list tells the sad story: Canonical is pulling funding for in-house developers to work on the KDE-based Kubuntu flavor. Canonical now seems committed to its single vision of a GNOME-based Unity as a desktop and other Ubuntu flavors will now have to rely on community support and some infrastructure from Canonical.

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