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The chemistry of website security

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OMG!! Facebook going to buy Ubuntu For $3 Billion

It seems Mark Zuckerberg (founder and CEO of Facebook) is not done shopping just yet. After buying  WhatsApp  and  Oculus Rift , Mark Zuckerberg’s next target is Canonical, parent company of world’s most popular Linux distribution  Ubuntu . This is revealed in an exclusive report by  Business Insider . When asked about Facebook’s intention behind Ubuntu’s acquisition, Zuckerberg said: “…At Facebook, we always supported Open Source. We  saved $1 billion by switching to Open Source  servers last year. We used the saved revenue to buy Oculus” But when he was further probed on why buy Ubuntu in particular when Facebook could have started its own Linux distribution, Mark answered: “…Look, Facebook tried to pitch  its own smartphone  and failed miserably. While Mark Shuttleworth tried to  raise fund for an Ubuntu smartphone  and failed similarly. Ubuntu wants the convergence between desktop and mobile device and this is where our ideology converged to each other.” But tha