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> On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:44:48 -0700, dapunka wrote:
>
>> But business, money, the profit motive, always seems to rear its head.
>> Canonical is a business, it has to make a profit to keep its shareholders
>> or whatever happy - luckily it's doing this by providing support services,
>> but there's always the awful possibility that they might have to start
>> charging for Ubuntu some time in the future.
>
> I wouldn't mind having a "premium" version, even if it's just an honourary
> version (iow, no different than the free version). This would allow me to
> write it off from my taxes.
Dell has some support options. Mark said explicitly that Ubuntu "is not a
charity", but just like RHEL and SUSE, you can never force people to pay for
it. Look at the number of RHEL forks.
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