On 2 April 2016 at 04:32, D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh@mimosa.com> wrote:

Now another question: why is Canonical doing this?

​That's easy.

The business model for Canonical (as it is for any mainstream distro) is to make money from the human factors surrounding FOSS (training, support, documentation)​.

The link with MS offers new opportunities for the Linux services company that knows more about the MS/Linux integration than any other.

- Evan