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> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> Ubuntu Hardy Heron: Beyond the Hype and into the Dilemma
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>> | The main place where innovation is happening rapidly seems to be in
>> | Ubuntu's efforts to balance the concept of free software with the drive
>> | toward commercialism by Canonical, Ubuntu's face in business.
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> I doubt there is any truth behind that statement.
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> With free software comes business demand for prouducts
> and services. The nature of that demand is highly fluctuating.
> Ubuntu could be highly successful just by servicing demand
> and scaling back when demand wanes instead of over committing
> through business expansion and then trying to milk the market.
> Thats not a 'normal' business model of Commercialism.
> That may be what a Novel kind of failed business model leads to.
It works well for Oracle though.
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