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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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