its really a honor to be writing to u dag..

most of the kids and people getting introduced to linux nowadays, r playing with a version of the 'buntus..
its a similar case like how it was while windows was gaining popularity... the kids back then who used windows went ahead in life and started implementing more of windows because they were more familiar with it.
its very obvious the way things r going that redhat will loose more of their market share.. the smartest move for redhat is to collaborate with cannonical.
If not anything else, atleast a lot of standardization will come into the common linux distros..