Why would it be?

Why would it be?

Posted Sep 7, 2006 6:49 UTC (Thu) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091)
In reply to: Well, maybe there is an argument here by JoeBuck
Parent article: Really Free Software (Forbes)

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.

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