Ubuntu Pricing Concern

[Atzelan]

Karl Larsen schrieb:
> Marc Wiatrowski wrote:
>> On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 11:17 -0500, Ilya Vishnyakov wrote:
>>   
>>> Hello, Ubuntu Lovers!
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>> 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)
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>> What does Ubuntu want to say us by the term “Pricing”? Does this mean
>>> that there will be “commercial” releases in the future? 
>>>
>>>  
>>>     
>>
>> I read it kind of like a joke, a jab at OSs that you do have to pay
>> for...
>>
>>   
>     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
> 
> 

So much about open source, Free software and GNU GPL? I would change 
right away to another distribution, even if it is not as good.