Oracle intersted in buying Ubunutu
Alexander Jacob Tsykin
stsykin at gmail.com
Wed Apr 19 05:57:18 BST 2006
On Wednesday 19 April 2006 14:14, Daniel Robitaille wrote:
> In some ways that what's I was expecting when we heard that Mark
> bought ImpiLinux last year: keep a free Ubuntu we all know and use,
> but have a parallel "Ubuntu-Plus" that is no-free (but still very
> affortable) with all the non-free/libre stuff all ready for the users.
That would run counter to the Ubuntu philosophy:
"Ubuntu will always be free of charge, and there is no extra fee for
the "enterprise edition", we make our very best work available to everyone on
the same Free terms." (http://www.ubuntu.com)
I don't think he would want to do that.
Sasha
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