{"id":18,"date":"2007-06-18T14:26:22","date_gmt":"2007-06-18T19:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/dedicated-server-basics\/ubuntu-tells-microsoft-no-thanks\/"},"modified":"2018-11-05T21:10:36","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T02:10:36","slug":"ubuntu-tells-microsoft-no-thanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/2007\/06\/ubuntu-tells-microsoft-no-thanks\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu Tells Microsoft &#8220;No Thanks&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canonical chief executive Mark Shuttleworth has been finding his way into tech news this week, first with a keynote address urging the Linux community to collaborate on security and now with a &#8220;no thanks&#8221; to Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/about-ubuntu.php\">Click here<\/a> to learn more about Ubuntu dedicated servers.<\/p>\n<p>Shuttleworth but the kibosh on rumors that Ubuntu is talking to Microsoft about a deal similar to the software giant&#8217;s recent pacts with Novell, Linspire, and Xandros.<\/p>\n<p>See, Microsoft has been inking agreements with Linux developers to foster interoperability and technical collaboration between the open- and closed-source operating systems, as well to offer patent-litigation protection for customers of the Linux vendors it has befriended.<\/p>\n<h1>Shuttleworth<\/h1>\n<p>Although Shuttleworth is all for collaboration that advances the cause of free software, he&#8217;s not willing to strike a deal with mighty Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.markshuttleworth.com\/archives\/127\">Click here to read the post from Saturday in Shuttleworth&#8217;s blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>ServerPronto offers affordable and secure<a href=\"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/dedicated\"> dedicated servers<\/a> and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/cloud\"> cloud<\/a> hosting service&nbsp;packages<span style=\"font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0px;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canonical chief executive Mark Shuttleworth has been finding his way into tech news this week, first with a keynote address urging the Linux community to collaborate on security and now with a &#8220;no thanks&#8221; to Microsoft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[123,70,17,112,22,39,48,18],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dedicated-server-basics","tag-cloud","tag-data","tag-dedicated-server","tag-hosting","tag-server","tag-serverpronto","tag-ubuntu","tag-web-hosting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3031,"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/3031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}