enterprise paragraph wording

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 11:23:23AM -0700, Jordan Mantha 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".
> 
> Maybe I missed something, but are you proposing
> s/distinction/separation/ , s/enterprise edition/enterprise/ or both?
> Dropping "edition" doesn't seem like it would do much. The change to
> "separation"  seems ok, but I don't know if it'll help the confusion
> much.

I edited that page before Jonathan sent his mail, I think, and so the delta
you're seeing is a bit confused.

> 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 .

That's essentially the message we want to send, yes.  There's some
discussion going on between Mark and others about standardizing our wording
for it.

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 - mdz