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:"I Don't Think Anyone Can Make Money From the Linux Desktop"
"I Don't Think Anyone Can Make Money From the Linux Desktop"
Oct 27, 2008, 19 :47 UTC (6 Talkback[s]) (6330 reads)
(Other stories by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols)

[ Thanks to Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols for this link. ]

"Yes, that's right. The man behind what's almost certainly the most popular Linux desktop doesn't think he, or anyone else, can make money from the Linux desktop. Furthermore, he never really has.

"In a press call about the October 30th arrival of the next version of Ubuntu, Ubuntu 8.10, Shuttleworth said that Canonical has always seen the desktop as a "zero revenue" product.""

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  Talkback(s) Name  and Date
It's Asus (and eventually, Dell and ...   Hardware vendors can   
littlenoodles
Oct 27, 2008, 22:28:49  
bricklayers, and architects, and civil e ...   Re: Hardware vendors can--And consultants, too   
Ed Matthews
Oct 28, 2008, 00:58:32  
...and that no GNU/Linux distribution co ...   I believe Shuttleworth is correct...   
cjm
Oct 28, 2008, 05:52:44  
No...really...that's a friggin screa ...   That's too funny   
helios
Oct 28, 2008, 06:24:33  
You either believe in the tenets of Free ...   Proprietary is anathema   
Ronald Trip
Oct 28, 2008, 12:22:48  
Desktop operating systems have never sol ...   OSs Not Consumer "Products"   
Josh
Oct 28, 2008, 19:27:01  
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