Mavericks isn't really free -- you can't have it without the hardware to go with it and that hardware can be seen as a 'lifetime' license for OS X. Ubuntu has

Mavericks isn't really free -- you can't have it without the hardware to go with it and that hardware can be seen as a 'lifetime' license for OS X. Ubuntu has paid enterprise services: http://www.canonical.com/services http://www.canonical.com/services I don't think I've ever seen Mint deployed in an enterprise environment, at least not in a standard 'big business'