[Cialug] Ubuntu question

[Chris Hilton]

Supposedly Shuttleworth has only given 10mil to the foundation and that's just 
to get it started.  I haven't figured out yet how they hope to make money; 
maybe they hope to do some sort of support/consulting?  Maybe they just get 
donations from people...
They could probably survive on donations.  It's not *that* expensive to mail 
you a cd.  Especially if one in ten of you send in $5 on average, and every 
once and a while Shuttleworth throws a mil at them ;).


On Friday 20 January 2006 15:40, Nathan C. Smith wrote:
> It may prove otherwise, but I really think it is Mark shuttleworth's
> philanthropic effort.  Some people leave museums, others leave college
> buildings, he is going to leave an open-source operating system 2nd to
> none.
>
> It has to almost be RMS's wet dream.  Open source software put together by
> people who *really* care and get paid to do it.
>
> Everybody should be so lucky to have a billionaire astronaut funding them
> just because he can.
>
> I read somewhere that Bill Gates could probably afford to feed the whole
> world for a year.  I wonder if anyone will remember him fondly.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Hawkins [mailto:ng0g at mchsi.com]
> Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 2:13 PM
> To: cialug at cialug.org
> Subject: [Cialug] Ubuntu question
>
>
> cialug,
>
> Does anyone know anything about Ubuntu's business model?  If so could you
> please explain it to me.
>
> Thanks,
> Steve

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