Like the other reply says, it's not money that I think is the most important WE can make - Shuttleworth has plenty of that, and as far as the Amazon ads go, he

Like the other reply says, it's not money that I think is the most important WE can make - Shuttleworth has plenty of that, and as far as the Amazon ads go, he probably just wants to establish a long term strategy for profitability, and this is one thing to try out. We should be contributing to Ubuntu with our skills. THAT is what will make a big difference. Donating some money for them to buy more hardware is not going to make nearly as big of a difference. What's your area of expertise? Try going on the Ubuntu Launchpad page and finding some bugs to fix. Send in some patches to the core team. Now that's what can make a big difference. Sure, there are tens of thousands of bugs. But if we all spent a few hours a week fixing them, we could plow through them pretty quickly. If we spent time during the beta testing periods running new versions of Ubuntu on our hardware and providing feedback, we could see things improve in terms of hardware compatibility.