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Canonical should be cautious about this kind of actions. They should learn the lessons from CentOS and how it impacts RedHat revenue.

RedHat has a clear and defined business model (I don't like it, but it's well defined). Nobody knows the business model of Canonical, so an Ubuntu fork/clone could kill them.

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Mint is already killing them on the desktop, how long before a "Mint server" arrives?

And yes, Debian for servers, but some people wants more up to date software.

Really? I am yet to see a Mint installation live.

Around me and our customers it is all about Ubuntu and Red-Hat.

I'm in Europe and even some non-tech know what a Linux Mint is. And a lot of newbies I help to install Linux on their laptops explicitly ask for it as well. Many are lost with Ubuntu/Unity interface and are much more happy with Cinnamon on Mint.

Mint 17 was vastly more compatible as a desktop VM than Ubuntu 14.04, so I definitely used it when I needed to test code with gcc 4.8.

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