enterprise paragraph wording

[David Symons]

On 10/12/07, Jordan Mantha <mantha at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On 10/11/07, Jonathan Riddell <jriddell at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> >
> > Steve wanted me to run this here.
> >
> > "The Ubuntu project makes no distinction between a free edition and an enterprise
> > edition - this is our best work and it is freely available."
> >
> > I've seen more than one person read this and say "you have an
> > enterprise edition?"
> >
> > So I changed it to "project makes no separation between a free edition
> > or an enterprise".

How about:

"The Ubuntu project makes its best work freely available to all.
There is no separate enterprise edition."

> 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 .

That would project Canonical's ownership of Ubuntu.  While that is the
fact of the matter for things like names and logos, my impression has
been that Canonical prefers to project 'sponsorship' or 'backed by'.

Cheers, David.
-- 
David Symons
Canberra, Australia
http://www.liberatedcomputing.net