Would you pay $20 for Ubuntu??

[Shpongle]

It is not paying I mind it is freedom. If Ubuntu charged money someone would just take the whole thing and repackage it for free. However charging for install media and services I would gladly pay.

I hope Canonical makes a boxed DVD like Novell does, with a great installer, choose between Gnome KDE XFCE LXDE (depending on space). Get common software for each, and a nice printed manual. I would pay around 100 for that and I would buy two if it were less and give one as a gift. The software center could be set up to recognize the media and give it a cool icon then enable it as a software source for your installed Ubuntu. If not every 6 months perhaps every LTS they do the DVD?

I could finally look forward to a nice software package.

why not submit it as an idea to brainstorm ?

[forrestcupp]

My first thought was, "Of course not. I'd just switch to another one that is still free."

But if that price included lifetime legal licensing for DVD playback and codecs, and all upgrades are free, then yes. I would pay the $20.

[earthpigg]

no, but i'd pay for support if i needed it.

[aeiah]

not if my money ends up going mostly to the licensees, the postage and packaging, and the pocket of someone whose only contribution is sticking everything on a DVD.

id rather give my money to xbmc, deluge, openbox and kernel hackers

[praveenthivari]

When other linux distros provide all the media codecs installed for free, they dont ask for any pay, Y should Ubuntu ask for a pay for including those codecs by default.

Do other distroes pay the royalty fee for including the codecs in their distribution? (Just want to know the fact)

If they do pay, then y are they distributing it for free?

[Austin25]

I might if it came with the drivers for my tablet pc(hp-tx2) by default. That is extremely unlikely, so no.

[_h_]

I won't pay for a dvd, but I am thinking of getting some ubuntu gear from the shop in the future.

[raymondh]

Similar to earthpigg ... I would pay for support

[Psumi]

I'd use Debian, which I already do, anyway. Ubuntu is getting bloated.

[snowpine]

Maybe if Canonical paid me $20...