Meet Canonical's New CEO

Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2009-12-19 20:36:10 UTC
Modified: 2009-12-19 20:36:10 UTC

Summary: A chat with Jane Silber (Linux.com, 2008)

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This will hopefully keep quiet the "Ubuntu is sexist" crowd.

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Yuhong Bao

2009-12-25 09:49:31

I know, when the boycott of Whole Foods happened, some threatened to do it until Mackey was out. Luckily, the boycott did not have much effect (there was a buycott too which probably helped): http://www.businessinsider.com/whole-foods-is-back-in-business-2009-10

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