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Re:Fix Ubuntu by rizalp on Friday November 08, 2013 @11:04AM (#6696890)
It's funny how the history repeat itself when the company that support certain disro want to monetize it. A long time ago, it's Redhat. Then, SUSE with their licensing deal with Microsoft. Anyone knows what happens to Xandros and Mandriva?

I think Canonical should be more honest that they need money. People would gladly pay for stable OS that is supported long enough. I think the combination of Stable OS, lots of Apps that is close to the current upstream relase, and good hardware support is the winning formula here..

My dream is that I want Ubuntu to be essentially the equivalent of OSX, but I can install it on as many hardware configuration as possible, not just Mac

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Re:Fix Ubuntu by justincormack on Friday November 08, 2013 @11:17AM (#6697017)
They are quite open, you can pay on the download screen http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/questions?distro=desk...
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Re:Fix Ubuntu by krelian on Friday November 08, 2013 @01:30PM (#6698089)
>People would gladly pay for stable OS that is supported long enough.

Do you see the amounts of complaints they are getting from who paid $0? Imagine the outrage they will face when people who paid $10 start asking for their money back because they don't like feature X of the new release.

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