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Well, maybe there is an argument here
Well, maybe there is an argument here
Posted Sep 7, 2006 1:03 UTC (Thu) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330)In reply to: YSA (yet still another) by bfields
Parent article: Really Free Software (Forbes)
Well, Forbes might not be entirely wrong.
We're getting a lot of free software because Red Hat and Novell can afford to pay the developers. If Ubuntu succeeds in depressing Red Hat and Novell's revenue, and layoffs follow, Mr. Shuttleworth might not be in a position to hire all the laid-off software developers, rich as he is.
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Why would it be?
Posted Sep 7, 2006 6:49 UTC (Thu) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link]
Why would Ubuntu succeed against Red Hat where other excellent distros failed? Gentoo, Debian, even CentOS are reputed and widely merited distributions which are freely available. I don't see why Ubuntu in particular would make a difference.If you buy Red Hat's or Novell's offerings it must be because of support, since their software is available somewhere. Well, Canonical sells support for Ubuntu, and it is not cheap. Free software at its best.