Which would you pay for? Windows 7 or Ubuntu?

[Shibblet]

Obviously Ubuntu is available at no cost to anyone who wants to download it. Microsoft has always charged a large price for the Operating System of choice. A moral question.

Which would you feel better doing?

Paying $129.95 - $199.95 for Windows 7 Upgrade or Full Version?
or
Make a $199.95 donation to Ubuntu 9.10?

Explain Why?

I bought a bunch of stuff from the Ubuntu store just for the heck of it. T-Shirts, CD's, and the like. I actually enjoy supporting the company that gives me a free OS, and an amazing online community that is extremely helpful. I don't think I've spent over $200.00 there though... ;)

[geekygirl]

oooh what a loaded question this one is...recurring discussions in three...two....

[SunnyRabbiera]

Make a $199.95 donation to Ubuntu 9.10?

DING! DING! DING! DING! We got a winnar!:lolflag:

[schauerlich]

I'd download FreeBSD.

[nisshh]

I would still pay for ubuntu, although iv heard that windows 7 is better than vista.(not that i would buy it anyway.)

[TheNosh]

well, what i'm GOING to do is pay for windows 7. this is because i want it and i'm not a thief.

however if paying was purely by choice and i chose to pay for anything, i would donate to debian or arch because i plan on switching to one of those when i have the time.

that being said i'd probably pay for neither, not because i'm ungrateful but because i don't have much money. so instead i help people on the forums whenever i see a problem i can help with so at least thats something. (well that and i bought one ubuntu shirt and the winter hat)

[moster]

Maybe people should not look at 200$ or nothing. What is wrong with how much you can give that you do not feel burden. 200$ in Japan is like 1000$ in Russia.

Is there easy way to donate some money? I do not need anything back, just to somehow donate for good work. Lets say I want to give them some money because they spend little of their bandwidth on me for updates :) I think it would be fair.

(If everybody from 8 mil Ubuntu users pay only 1$, it would be 8 mil$$$ :D , and that is more Ubuntu developers )

[slakkie]

Obviously I would be more willing to pay for Ubuntu. However, not the price you are suggesting. I would perhaps donate 10 euro's per year to an FOSS project, and not a one time 200 euro's.

[toupeiro]

I've seen 7. I see nothing in there worth the price tag. Canonical gets most of its money through support, but I would donate to them or to other open source projects, which I do.

[khelben1979]

Nothing. I give support, that's my contribution.

[toupeiro]

Nothing. I give support, that's my contribution.

:guitar:

[Katalog]

Nothing. I give support, that's my contribution.

Ditto. I joined my state LoCo and try to spread the word about FOSS and Linux by handing out CD's and flyers at just about every community event they'll allow me to do it at. On occasion I'll even buy official CDs from the store when I have the money to spare and hand those out rather than the ISO copies I usually give away, and I also buy Ubuntu merchandise once in a while. But I'll never pay a red cent for a proprietary OS.

[gn2]

I wouldn't give Microsoft my money as I don't want their products.

I wouldn't give Canonical/Ubuntu my money because they don't need it.

I have and will continue to make donations to small projects which I feel are of value to me.

[starcannon]

I buy my computers with Ubuntu preinstalled.

[The Toxic Mite]

Personally, I would make the $200 donation to Canonical, because Ubuntu is the best open-source project I have come across.

:D

[Screwdriver0815]

I bought some stuff in the Canonical shop

I have donated some money to Debian (without them Ubuntu would not exist), to Gnome and to KDE (without them we would not have awesome DE's, we would sit in front of a black screen). And I think next year I will donate to themn again.

Additional I do some translation work, which is not much at the moment but I try to do as much as possible.

But I would not pay 200 € for Windows, because I don't need/ want it.

[hoppipolla]

Maybe people should not look at 200$ or nothing. What is wrong with how much you can give that you do not feel burden. 200$ in Japan is like 1000$ in Russia.

Is there easy way to donate some money? I do not need anything back, just to somehow donate for good work. Lets say I want to give them some money because they spend little of their bandwidth on me for updates :) I think it would be fair.

(If everybody from 8 mil Ubuntu users pay only 1$, it would be 8 mil$$$ :D , and that is more Ubuntu developers )

Wow he's really right there! Im gonna donate a bit of money later today! ^_^

But yeah I really dont know... in many ways my head says Windows 7 but my heart says Ubuntu! lol

[credobyte]

I would use that money for something else, not computer related. However, if I would need to choose between these 2 options .. Ubuntu would be the winner.

[cascade9]

I wont pay for windows anymore. Up till windows 2000, I was fine with paying, but then came XP and product activation. XP was fine, product activation, no thanks.

If there was just the choice of win7 or ubuntu, I would have to go with ubuntu. Mainly cause ubuntu doesn't care how many PCs I install it on, win7 does. As I tend to be changing hardware on a steady basis, and also test on various machines, win7 is right out.

BTW, no, I wouldnt pay for ubuntu unless it MS or ubuntu (I wont count macosx as you cant legally install that on a non-mac, and I dont have enough money to pay for overpriced hardware)

[C!oud]

I wouldn't pay/donate to any of them.

[Chame_Wizard]

$200.- donation to FSF and Ubuntu(Debian also).:lolflag:

[geogur]

well, what i'm GOING to do is pay for windows 7. this is because i want it and i'm not a thief.

however if paying was purely by choice and i chose to pay for anything, i would donate to debian or arch because i plan on switching to one of those when i have the time.

that being said i'd probably pay for neither, not because i'm ungrateful but because i don't have much money. so instead i help people on the forums whenever i see a problem i can help with so at least thats something. (well that and i bought one ubuntu shirt and the winter hat)

? ubuntu is the only choice you clearly don`t understand the question . i support the linux foundation cause i can and have a linux.com email address

[razorboy5]

I would Torrent Ubuntu...

[TheNosh]

I would Torrent Ubuntu...

seeding is helpful, it's like donating.

[Giant Speck]

Why not do both? :D

[madjr]

well i would pay for ubuntu , specially pre-loaded on a laptop

buying stuff in the ubuntu store is great too

but hanging in the forums, distributing and joining a LoCo team is the best way most people can support ubuntu

$ buys manpower. Most of us donate already our manpower