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Is Ubuntu Selling Out or Growing Up?
May 1, 2008, 01 :30 UTC (4 Talkback[s]) (6083 reads)

(Other stories by Jeff Gould)

[ Thanks to AlexGr for this link. ]

"Sometimes I wonder whether Ubuntu is really an open source software company any more.

"Yes, yes, I realize Ubuntu is not a company at all but a free Linux distribution, GPL'd and open source by definition. But still, the Ubuntu distro is sponsored by a traditional for profit company, Canonical Ltd, and it is very fair to say that the distro would not exist without the company. Ubuntu describes itself on its web site as 'a community developed and supported project,' but in reality it has no separate existence from Canonical and that firm's owner and founder Mark Shuttleworth..."

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distorts them into a misrepresentation t ...   Article doesn't report facts it ...   
GreyGeek
May 1, 2008, 02:02:52
 
...Sometimes I wonder whether Ubuntu is  ...   Hint: Do not write when drunk.   
Brandioch Conner
May 1, 2008, 02:11:42
 
...is Iaxcomm (an iax2 compatible softph ...   Another Canonical deception...   
cjm
May 1, 2008, 14:04:05
 
free as in speech, not free as in beer.. ...   Re: Another Canonical deception...   
Scott
May 1, 2008, 17:44:35
 
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