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Canonical seeks profit from free Ubuntu (ZDNet)Canonical seeks profit from free Ubuntu (ZDNet)Posted Oct 11, 2006 9:17 UTC (Wed) by jfj (guest, #37917)In reply to: Canonical seeks profit from free Ubuntu (ZDNet) by richo123 Parent article: Canonical seeks profit from free Ubuntu (ZDNet)
Shuttleworth should probably give money to Debian.
OK. We know that Debian people are volunteers with a vision. But when you are doing volunteer work and then somebody uses your work to make a -very big- profit, then this feels unfair. That in effect is the best way to kill voluntarism. The fact that you do something for free, does NOT mean that you don't want/need money.
So while the general perception is that Shuttleworth is doing good to linux, it actually indirectly harms debian, which is one of the few distributions controled by the community left (along with Gentoo).
Humble opinion, of course.
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Canonical seeks profit from free Ubuntu (ZDNet) Posted Oct 13, 2006 0:53 UTC (Fri) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239) [Link] What would Debian do with the money? They have plenty to support their hardware, and many of the developers have made it clear that using Debian money to pay for Debian development is unacceptable.
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