Ubuntu's move into mobiles, tablets & replacing X.11 - is Mark Shuttleworth insane?

(Another repurposed mailing-list post. Please feel free to rip this apart.)

Maybe Ubuntu are not desperate. Do not forget Shuttleworth's wealth. He
can fund this for a long time.

Note also that a dot-com millionaire - not a billionaire, a "mere"
millionaire - is able to fund his own private freaking *space
programme* these days, with *multiple launch sites* mark you, out of
his own pocket without outside investment. While also running the most
famous pure-play electric-car company on the side.

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