“@ubuntu asks us to bill you 1e-2e per month for each VPS/PCI/PCC/SD”

Re:“@ubuntu asks us to bill you 1e-2e per month for each VPS... by alrs on Sunday June 19, 2016 @04:41PM (#11934582)

This will be great news for Debian. Thank you, Canonical.

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Re:“@ubuntu asks us to bill you 1e-2e per month for each VPS... by pkaye on Sunday June 19, 2016 @10:02PM (#11935689)

No good. Even Debian puts restrictions on how you can use its trademark... https://www.debian.org/trademark

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Re:“@ubuntu asks us to bill you 1e-2e per month for each VPS... by nailer on Sunday June 19, 2016 @05:15PM (#11934704)

I like Debian more than Ubuntu too, bu I think it's more likely Ubuntu gets a CentOS (same tech, no logos) equivalant.

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Re:“@ubuntu asks us to bill you 1e-2e per month for each VPS... by rodgerd on Sunday June 19, 2016 @05:25PM (#11934754)

If you think that, you haven't been paying attention to the long, torturous saga of Canonical arguing that if you have the name "Ubuntu" in the name of the package, the Debian-formatted release notes, or pretty much anything, you need to beg them for trademark permission.

Matthew Garrett has been chasing this around[1].

[1] http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/35969.html

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Re:“@ubuntu asks us to bill you 1e-2e per month for each VPS... by athenot on Sunday June 19, 2016 @07:19PM (#11935217)

The free version could just be the word "Ubuntu" in a different language. :)

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Re:“@ubuntu asks us to bill you 1e-2e per month for each VPS... by tripletmass on Sunday June 19, 2016 @10:45PM (#11935798)

Yes, let's defer to Kenyan popular opinion on what they would call something they're billed forward for calling its name. Points for guessing it rhymes with luche?

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Re:“@ubuntu asks us to bill you 1e-2e per month for each VPS... by alrs on Sunday June 19, 2016 @05:20PM (#11934726)

Likely enough, and depressing to think of all the effort that could go into Debian instead getting spent gluing Ubuntu back together again.

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Re:“@ubuntu asks us to bill you 1e-2e per month for each VPS... by mhurron on Sunday June 19, 2016 @05:28PM (#11934769)

> Ubuntu gets a CentOS (same tech, no logos) equivalant.

Wouldn't that be Debian?

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Re:“@ubuntu asks us to bill you 1e-2e per month for each VPS... by umanwizard on Sunday June 19, 2016 @05:33PM (#11934787)

No. Ubuntu is not just Debian with logos.

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