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Self-described Kubuntu user?
Self-described Kubuntu user?
Posted Oct 13, 2006 18:14 UTC (Fri) by bronson (subscriber, #4806)In reply to: Self-described Kubuntu user? by bojan
Parent article: How many Fedora users are there?
How about you provide engineers, machines, offices and bandwidth for a free, fully supported community distro which will be timely updated for at least 5 years?
Red Hat used to do exactly this, of course. And they kicked serious ass and made a lot of money. A few years ago they stopped doing it and now they kick far less ass and seem to be worried about money. Is there a connection? Who knows?
All businesses require investment to get started. You appear skeptical that Canonical will ever make money off Ubuntu... Personally, I would buy their stock if I could. Until I can, I'll just submit bugfixes and patches.
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Self-described Kubuntu user?
Posted Oct 13, 2006 21:58 UTC (Fri) by bojan (subscriber, #14302) [Link]
> Red Hat used to do exactly this, of course. And they kicked serious ass and made a lot of money.
Apparently not: http://lwn.net/Articles/204238/. This is from a person that actually worked there in those days.
> A few years ago they stopped doing it and now they kick far less ass and seem to be worried about money.
I think that's not correct. Red Hat are making more money now than they ever did. Of course they are "worried" about money. That's what companies do - it is the main purpose of their existence.
> All businesses require investment to get started. You appear skeptical that Canonical will ever make money off Ubuntu...
I'm just saying I don't know. In the beginning, when the cash is abundant, things are always easy. We'll see what happens later if/when Mark's cash runs out. Obviously, I haven't seen their books, so I don't know how much money is coming in or going out.