Buying stock in Ubuntu

[jnewl]

Is there a publicly traded company behind the Ubuntu distro the way there is for, say, Red Hat? If so, can someone provide the info I would need to purchase some shares? Thanks.

[SunnyRabbiera]

No I think Canonical is a private company

[cardinals_fan]

Canonical is private.

[kevin11951]

any thing behind debian then, i would like to know to?

ill make my father buy some.