“@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 zimbatm on Sunday June 19, 2016 @06:51PM (#11935116)

Canonical is certainly trying to find a way to monetize it's OS too. It must be frustrating to be the N1 guest OS and make no money out of it. They have a couple of commercial offerings but for most part companies just use Ubuntu VMs and never pay for the security updates, bandwidth, ...

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Re:“@ubuntu asks us to bill you 1e-2e per month for each VPS... by sangnoir on Sunday June 19, 2016 @07:00PM (#11935147)

> Canonical is certainly trying to find a way to monetize it's OS too.

My bet it's the trust/'brand' thing rather than monetization - allowing anyone to make 3rd party modifications to your product and passing it off as the original/pristine version is a bad idea in any market. Heck - even Mozilla ran into this with Debian when Debian was maintaining and applying their own parallel patchset on top of Firefox. Debian snarkily called their version 'IceWeasel'[1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_software_rebranded_by_...

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Re:“@ubuntu asks us to bill you 1e-2e per month for each VPS... by nwp90 on Sunday June 19, 2016 @07:47PM (#11935325)

There was no snark - just a need to come up with a set of different names for Mozilla software modified as necessary by Debian.

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Re:“@ubuntu asks us to bill you 1e-2e per month for each VPS... by sangnoir on Monday June 20, 2016 @03:37AM (#11936626)

I think the 'weasel' bit was pure underhanded snark (in a You're no foxes- you're a bunch of weasels kinda way). The original proposal within Debian was "IceRabbit"

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