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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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