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This article makes me uncomfortable, it's pretty light on information and then reveals the author is a contributor and expects donations - shouldn't such a contributor have more information or at least more to say than "Canonical want to sell x, but x could be anything, so the results could be anything"?

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Being a contributor to an open source project doesn't automatically give you any insight into the business goals of a company sponsoring the same project.

But yet that same contributor expects readers to pay him for a few paragraphs of weak guesswork?

He probably hopes people might pay him for the development work he's putting into Ubuntu rather than the blogging.

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