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It's a French website, and Google Translate doesn't do a terrific job, but there are some links to OVH's tweets. Seems like they are charged for using the Ubun
by helb 10y ago
It's a French website, and Google Translate doesn't do a terrific job, but there are some links to OVH's tweets.
Seems like they are charged for using the Ubuntu trademark on their website [0], not for using Ubuntu OS on VPS instances, as the post title might suggest. Allegedly it comes up to a million EUR a year [1].
A former Digital Ocean employee tweeted that Canonical wanted $4-5 for each DO droplet (with Ubuntu, presumably) at the time he worked there [2].
[0]: https://twitter.com/olesovhcom/status/744609239075799044 https://twitter.com/olesovhcom/status/744609239075799044
[1]: https://twitter.com/olesovhcom/status/745146459910070272 https://twitter.com/olesovhcom/status/745146459910070272
[2]: https://twitter.com/jedgar/status/744901488468725760 https://twitter.com/jedgar/status/744901488468725760