@Ashutosh +1 On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 12:07 AM, Ashutosh Rishi Ranjan < [email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 11:00 PM, Ramnarayan.K <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Ashutosh Rishi Ranjan > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I love Ubuntu because frankly till now I have had no objections to > >> Canonical's decisions. I weigh their decisions in terms of its effect > >> on new users not me because I know that the decision won't really > >> affect me because I can choose what I want after installing the > >> default. Canonical does not enforce but merely makes their decisions > >> idiot-proof. > > > > I missed an important point in my original mail but here is one of the > crux > > > > What if, just thing about it, what if Canonical asked you to pay. A La > > Novell and Closed Suse (as opposed to open suse) or Red Hat > > > > This (at another level) is also applicable to Gmail (and other google > services) > > When I first went to Ubuntu.com to download my first copy of the OS, the > first > thing I read was "The Ubuntu Promise". Which of course promises to > keep ubuntu free. And I *trust* in it. Even if they manage to charge > on it against the uproar of a massive community which has kept itself > well versed with the Ubuntu Promise, at this moment, I have faith in > them and thats why Ubuntu is great. > I don't think they will ever put a price on it. The community is there > to ensure that. Even though Canonical is the main company as I said, > they are important as long as they keep the community running. If the > community collapses, Ubuntu is going to be history. > Plus if there is ever a situation that Canonical just lets ubuntu go, > there is an Ubuntu Foundation with enough funds to keep ubuntu running > until everything stabilizes. > > > > Yes people would migrate , maybe, but would you pay. I wouldn't , not > > because its about the money because actually i am willing to pay for > > services. which is what the open source model offers. > > > > ram > > -- > Ashutosh Rishi > Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish > > -- > ubuntu-in mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in > -- Amarendra Kumar Final Year Undergraduate Dept. of IT, NIT Patna http://amarendra.web.officelive.com "Stay hungry, stay foolish"
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