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Free + Community
Free + Community
Posted Oct 21, 2004 19:13 UTC (Thu) by tjc (subscriber, #137)In reply to: Free + Community by davidw
Parent article: Ubuntu Linux and the future of Debian
It will be interesting to see how things develop on the business side of things with Ubuntu, as well...
I'm wondering how long they will be able to pay for shipping on the free disks they are offering. From all indications Mark Shuttleworth is a generous person, but that (international) shipping bill could get pretty big after a while.
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Free + Community
Posted Oct 28, 2004 8:38 UTC (Thu) by joib (guest, #8541) [Link]
I'm wondering how long they will be able to pay for shipping on the free disks they are offering.Compared to the cost of employing ~30 people to work on Ubuntu, I'm pretty sure that shipping CD:s around the world is peanuts.
But yeah, I do wonder what their business plan is. Mark Shuttleworth can probably afford to bleed more red ink than most startups, but at some point they have to get profitable if they intend their effort to be sustainable.