Dell to offer Ubuntu 7.04 on selected desk/laptops

[manchicken]

On Wednesday 09 May 2007 03:11:08 Huston wrote:
> Marriam-webster sees it differently....  If he makes money in others ways
> that is different, but commercializing something is to do it for profit....
> I just liked the distro and don't want to see it going the way of some of
> the other distros that I have liked..  That was really all my question was
> trying to dig at.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Matthew Flaschen" <matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu>
> To: "Kubuntu Help and User Discussions" <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 7:39 PM
> Subject: Re: Dell to offer Ubuntu 7.04 on selected desk/laptops
>
> > Huston wrote:
> >> Commercialized has nothing to do with free.....  commercialized has to
> >> do with profit.
> >
> > No, commercialized simply has to do with making money.  Canonical
> > already makes money off Ubuntu (not enough to recoup costs yet), and
> > that's well and good.
> >
> >> I don't see them selling Ubuntu for a profit.
> >
> > They have said that they won't sell the OS itself.  That's really not
> > the point though.  What I want is for them to focus more on software
> > that is free as in freedom (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html).
> >
> > Matt Flaschen
> >
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Nobody has ruled out possibilities of profit.  Please let's not split hairs.

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