Canonical Dropping Jobs After Closing Unity Development

It seems Ubuntu’s bad days are here. It is not only stopping the unity desktop development. But it is also reducing in jobs. It seems many jobs on ubuntu’s backend are closing. Anyone who was working on unity are reduced in number. Those who were working on ubuntu phones are also going out of the job. It seems the company is in bad phase. And they seem to have mostly revenue less projects. This means one has to find some good investors from here onwards. Most likely the money that shuttleworth got to understand the market more than ever now. So it seems with the dreams shattering. Most of the free projects around ubuntu are likely to get some axe. In this article we are going to discuss how the canonical’s drop on Unity has changed the open source and free software.

Mir Server Jobs

I think the biggest setback is to the mir server programmers. They are the first one to be either relocated or removed from the jobs. As there is no future for their own display server. I think it’d be safe to say that mir is to be making many people go on job hunt. And that leads to the question where the next display server project is going to be. I think it is going to be harder to say but most of the guys on that project may switch to the server level jobs. As there are plenty of the users who are demanding ubuntu server OS. And getting more people served there is going to save money for the canonical.

Unity

It seems ubuntu is falling back to gnome. And they seem to be not wasting the time and money this round. And so the jobs are sacked on the unity position too. It seems there are some good options when it comes to the unity. But it is worth knowing that unity is not good considering how the display manager has yet to be picked up by the community. Most of the hate came from the GNU work made the desktop manager to lose the ground. I think most of the Unity hate was because of that. I am sure in future there are times when the unity may make an appearance on the another desktop flavor.

Phone Project

I am sure there is a valid reason phone companies are not going for the ubuntu phones. And the reason could be because the project lacked apps. Though you may find majority of the apps in it. Like say facebook, twitter and other social media apps. But it lacked a lot of punch. And all the hardware and software team may not be able to continue with the canonical project. I am sure there are ways with which the phone project can be continued. But so far I don’t see any good indication there. Hopefully in future they may do something about the phone projects.

For now it seems there is job sacking going on. And there seems to be need for the development on open source world for this.

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