Free + Community

Free + Community

Posted Oct 28, 2004 8:38 UTC (Thu) by joib (guest, #8541)
In reply to: Free + Community by tjc
Parent article: Ubuntu Linux and the future of Debian

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.

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