sfabel
August 14th, 2005, 02:36 AM
Hi,
does anyone know what the business model behind Ubuntu Linux is? How does Canonical pay it's employees or plan to keep it up with this great linux distribution? I probably won't switch anymore to any other Linux or (yikes!) Windows, but I would like to know how Mark Shuttleworth (from my understanding the main financial contributor) and Canonical like to finance all this.
How safe is it to say that in 5 years, there will still be an Ubuntu Version every six months, with support for the last three releases, and no "professional" version, etc.?
I would love to see this "project" succeed as a business as well, if just to prove that money can be made with free software (in the RMS sense).
Cheers,
Stephan
does anyone know what the business model behind Ubuntu Linux is? How does Canonical pay it's employees or plan to keep it up with this great linux distribution? I probably won't switch anymore to any other Linux or (yikes!) Windows, but I would like to know how Mark Shuttleworth (from my understanding the main financial contributor) and Canonical like to finance all this.
How safe is it to say that in 5 years, there will still be an Ubuntu Version every six months, with support for the last three releases, and no "professional" version, etc.?
I would love to see this "project" succeed as a business as well, if just to prove that money can be made with free software (in the RMS sense).
Cheers,
Stephan