Mark Shuttleworth has denied that they are developing Ubuntu for tablets. He said that Canonical’s main focus for Ubuntu remains on the desktop, netbooks and servers.

Both OIN and Canonical are highlighting the “Freedom of Action” they wish to achieve through this association. With this freedom, they wish to unite companies, individuals and groups who are committed to improving Linux.

Ubuntu went out of its way to license H.264 and discarded Theora in the process. This made Canonical the only company dealing in Linux to license H.264 video.

Canonical has revealed its plans of strong ISV and software vendor open source ecosystem support from IBM and Adobe for this release of Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx.

According to a leaked company memo, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is reportedly interested in buying Canonical, the company behind the popular Linux Distro Ubuntu.