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Posted Sep 15, 2004 19:37 UTC (Wed) by mmarsh (subscriber, #17029)In reply to: Question by ccyoung
Parent article: Ubuntu 4.10 Preview released
Well, the distro is "owned" by Canonical Ltd. according to their web site. On the Canonical homepage:
"Canonical Ltd. is committed to the development, distribution and promotion of open source software products, and to providing tools and support to the open source community."
So it sounds like their business model is custom tools and support.
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Posted Sep 15, 2004 19:45 UTC (Wed) by holstein (subscriber, #6122) [Link]
It do looks like the idea is "tools and support", while trying to build a community :
Ubuntu is a community driven project. It is with and through community feedback and participation that Ubuntu is directed, improved, and brought forward.
In the Community section.