> Here's a mirror of the original version of this blog post. They rescinded it. No reason to make them dwell in misery forever. > Elementry's Dev team doesn't

> Here's a mirror of the original version of this blog post. They rescinded it. No reason to make them dwell in misery forever. > Elementry's Dev team doesn't pay for Ubuntu, So? > they don't pay for the Kernel or GNU Tools, And? People get paid to work on both. Some people do it pro bono. They don't expect to be paid. > 'cheating the system' when they download a prebuilt iso of a collection of free software for free. Totally not true. There is a lot of refinement in the UX. If it's so easy, why is the distribution so special? Why don't you just whip up a bash script and send them out of business? Even if they just combined Open Source works, they have every right to flip the combination (which takes time and skill) at a value. If you package something for me that saves my 10 developers a day each of config time - I just saved thousands of dollars.