enterprise paragraph wording

[Neal McBurnett]

On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 11:23:23AM -0700, Jordan Mantha wrote:
> Personally I've never been fond of that text but have never tried to
> find a better alternative. It seems like we are picking fights by
> saying what we're not (RHEL and SLED) rather than saying what we
> *are*. I might argue that the lack of availability of an Enterprise
> version would speak to the point just as well. In all honesty the
> statement to me seems more about Canonical than Ubuntu. I think the
> idea behind the statement is that, unlike the other guys, Canonical
> doesn't use Ubuntu as the beta version for their "real" OS. The Ubuntu
> OS you get commercial support from Canonical is the same one you can
> download for free. Is that correct? If that's correct it seems more
> appropriate, IMO,  for www.canonical.com than www.ubuntu.com .
> 
> -Jordan

I also wonder if people would just start arguing that Ubuntu plus
Landscape is Canonical's "enterprise edition" that costs money, since
last I heard the landscape server wasn't open source.

Of course there are significant differences, but there are also
similarities.

So I agree with Jordan.

Neal McBurnett                 http://mcburnett.org/neal/