Mark Shuttleworth: Our Goal Is 200 Million Ubuntu Users In 4 Years

Re:Mark Shuttleworth: Our Goal Is 200 Million Ubuntu Users I... by jpr on Monday May 09, 2011 @11:51AM (#2529080)

I have a hard time figuring out how Canonical is going to make money. Most desktop users are not going to pay for support.

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Re:Mark Shuttleworth: Our Goal Is 200 Million Ubuntu Users I... by melling on Monday May 09, 2011 @12:02PM (#2529120)

How much do they need to make? If they made an average of $1/user, would that make them profitable? Having more people download your software, or having additional vendors ship it on netbooks, etc., shouldn't increase your costs by much.

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Re:Mark Shuttleworth: Our Goal Is 200 Million Ubuntu Users I... by olalonde on Monday May 09, 2011 @11:56AM (#2529096)

They have Ubuntu One, some kind of Dropbox. https://one.ubuntu.com/

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Re:Mark Shuttleworth: Our Goal Is 200 Million Ubuntu Users I... by AJ007 on Monday May 09, 2011 @01:00PM (#2529373)

Default search engine provider + app store = tons of $$$ with first world users.

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Re:Mark Shuttleworth: Our Goal Is 200 Million Ubuntu Users I... by Keyframe on Monday May 09, 2011 @04:41PM (#2530132)

I always wondered why they didn't put an ad during install process. There could be a google ads type of system where people could buy ads and get served impressions in installations. Or something like that. There are numerous ways to do this.

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Re:Mark Shuttleworth: Our Goal Is 200 Million Ubuntu Users I... by 2muchcoffeeman on Monday May 09, 2011 @07:53PM (#2530674)

Stop putting ads in everything. Ads suck.

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