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The Value of Free
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| How, exactly, would Best Buy have come to the conclusion that Ubuntu Linux is
| worth $19.99? I think the answer is fairly simple: they guessed.
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| Personally, I think this is an idea that really needs to be exploited by open
| source advocates of all sorts. Think the open source products you use are
| good enough to compete in the market? Sell it to the masses! If you feel the
| need to give your profits back into the community, all the better. The
| market -- and the community -- will decide if your move has been worthwhile,
| and your success will ride on how you handle the diplomatic introduction of
| open source to a whole new world of users.
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http://goodcomputing.blogspot.com/2008/07/value-of-free.html
Related:
Twobuntu talk
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| Mark said that: “Ubuntu could have derived from Red Hat, SuSE, Gentoo…”
| However, Mark did not do this, and instead forked Debian and hired a number
| of its best developers. Furthermore, I also disagree with the premise that
| he needed to derive from any codebase at all. A major theme of my talk is
| that what makes Debian so great is that it supports many hardware platforms
| and contains many software packages, built to work together. Why could
| his improvements not be done directly into Debian, just like HP and
| many other companies and interests have done? Finally, if Mark thinks
| he could have had so much success deriving from any other distro, Debian
| is not the special thing he claims it to be.
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http://keithcu.com/wordpress/?p=33
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