Summary: Knowing the crimes of Sirius 'Open Source'as a high-level insider, the CEO who bullied Sirius staff is running away, one can imagine after internal confrontation and risk of arrest/extradition/prosecution; we are still waiting for NOW: Pensions to send us letters and for Standard Life to progress several complaints from several of the company's victims
Ubuntu "took off" not because it was very good or very easy. Ubuntu "took off" because of ShipIt, i.e. because of a multi-millionaire subsidising its mass distribution (at a personal cost).