Ubuntu Pricing Concern

[Karl Larsen]

Marc Wiatrowski wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 11:17 -0500, Ilya Vishnyakov wrote:
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>> Hello, Ubuntu Lovers!
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>> I noticed that the Ubuntu Release News Article notices: “Pricing and
>> Availability: Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Desktop Edition is free of
>> charge” (http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-8.04-lts-desktop)
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>> What does Ubuntu want to say us by the term “Pricing”? Does this mean
>> that there will be “commercial” releases in the future? 
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> I read it kind of like a joke, a jab at OSs that you do have to pay
> for...
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>   
    So far as I care, if the price was near what Microsoft charges I 
would buy Ubuntu. The point is that Ubuntu is a far better operating 
system than the others and I choose to use it. I used Red Hat for years 
because it was good.


Karl


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