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Canonical Ltd is a privately held company founded (and funded) by South African entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth for the promotion of Free Software projects.

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Privately held - South Africa - Entrepreneur - Mark Shuttleworth - Free Software

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The first major product to be sponsored by the company is "Ubuntu", a Debian-based Linux distribution. Other open source projects sponsored by Canonical include the Bazaar revision control system, Launchpad, and TheOpenCD project.

Related Topics:
Ubuntu - Debian - Linux distribution - Bazaar - Revision control system - Launchpad - TheOpenCD

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Canonical is registered in the Isle of Man and employs staff around the world.

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