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Why does he have to pretend so hard that he is not trying to make money? Why the dodging? There's nothing wrong in making money. The only thing wrong here is th

Why does he have to pretend so hard that he is not trying to make money? Why the dodging? There's nothing wrong in making money. The only thing wrong here is this dishonesty. As many others here said in the other thread, we would gladly pay for Ubuntu, if there was an easy, straight forward, transparent way to do so. I would much prefer that instead of Amazon ads (sorry, I mean "integration"). I already pay to be a "friend of eclipse" just because it's easy to do and they deserve it. Or even better, if Ubuntu one services were worth a thing, I would love to pay for it.

fromhet 14y ago
The first result when I googled "donate ubuntu" was this link: http://www.ubuntu.com/community/get-involved/donate http://www.ubuntu.com/community/get-involved/donate It's not super hard to do. If we all gave them $20 for each new version (something they truly deserve) they would not be in dire straits.
- flatline3 14y ago
  It would be far easier if they simply sold the new version. Relying on the good graces of the user population hasn't prevented them from integrating Amazon advertisements, and won't likely prevent other bad decisions in the future.
  - rplnt 14y ago
    Your comment reminded me of other Ubuntu incident - when they were stealing profit from Banshee (they changed banshee's amazon ref id to ubuntu's).
    - trhtrsh 14y ago
      it's a bit presumptious to say who "owns" that profit, as both pieces are open source software that depend on each other for the music experience.
      - FrankBooth 14y ago
        Without the Banshee developers, Ubuntu wouldn't have Banshee to ship, so it's not particularly debatable who deserves the lion's share. Especially considering Ubuntu's incredibly weak contributions to open source in general. What Ubuntu did there was tacky. If they had handled it better (discussing it with upstream and working out a profit sharing scheme), at least it would've been slightly less disgusting.
    - FrankBooth 14y ago
      They did the same with Firefox.
    - windwhite144 14y ago
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  - hamax 14y ago
    > It would be far easier if they simply sold the new version. How would they do that without breaking user experience? (and gpl licence).
    - FrankBooth 14y ago
      GPL has zero influence. Please do the barest of research into licensing before invoking the GPL boogieman.
devb0x 14y ago
Yep, I would pay gladly for ubuntu. But dont make me work your affiliates when searching my own stuff.. then suggesting something else.
jiggy2011 14y ago
I think it would be difficult for them to start charging for the system at this point. Since everything is open source, if they added some kind of paid activation system or a charge to download the .iso or whatever, someone else would simply grab all of the code, remove the activation features and put it up somewhere else as "freebuntu" or whatever.

fromhet 14y ago

The first result when I googled "donate ubuntu" was this link: http://www.ubuntu.com/community/get-involved/donate http://www.ubuntu.com/community/get-involved/donate It's not super hard to do. If we all gave them $20 for each new version (something they truly deserve) they would not be in dire straits.

flatline3 14y ago
It would be far easier if they simply sold the new version. Relying on the good graces of the user population hasn't prevented them from integrating Amazon advertisements, and won't likely prevent other bad decisions in the future.
- rplnt 14y ago
  Your comment reminded me of other Ubuntu incident - when they were stealing profit from Banshee (they changed banshee's amazon ref id to ubuntu's).
  - trhtrsh 14y ago
    it's a bit presumptious to say who "owns" that profit, as both pieces are open source software that depend on each other for the music experience.
    - FrankBooth 14y ago
      Without the Banshee developers, Ubuntu wouldn't have Banshee to ship, so it's not particularly debatable who deserves the lion's share. Especially considering Ubuntu's incredibly weak contributions to open source in general. What Ubuntu did there was tacky. If they had handled it better (discussing it with upstream and working out a profit sharing scheme), at least it would've been slightly less disgusting.
  - FrankBooth 14y ago
    They did the same with Firefox.
  - windwhite144 14y ago
    Spend an exorbitant amount of money on your first designer http://www.ferragamobagsale.com/ http://www.ferragamobagsale.com/ is no joke. It is best to choose a design for your designer bag timeless and classic first. A good place to start, is http://www.ferragamobagsale.com/ http://www.ferragamobagsale.com/, the elegant and sophisticated styles that happen to have never checked. http://www.ferragamobagsale.com http://www.ferragamobagsale.com
- hamax 14y ago
  > It would be far easier if they simply sold the new version. How would they do that without breaking user experience? (and gpl licence).
  - FrankBooth 14y ago
    GPL has zero influence. Please do the barest of research into licensing before invoking the GPL boogieman.

devb0x 14y ago

Yep, I would pay gladly for ubuntu. But dont make me work your affiliates when searching my own stuff.. then suggesting something else.

jiggy2011 14y ago

I think it would be difficult for them to start charging for the system at this point. Since everything is open source, if they added some kind of paid activation system or a charge to download the .iso or whatever, someone else would simply grab all of the code, remove the activation features and put it up somewhere else as "freebuntu" or whatever.