Linked by on Mon 27th Oct 2008 23:10 UTC
From the get-go, the company behind the popular Linux distribution Ubuntu - Canonical - has backed Ubuntu with Mark Shuttleworth's money. The big question has always been if Canonical is actually making any money. We have a rather clear and definitive answer to that one now.
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2005-07-07
i imagine that's exactly what ubuntu will be. free while you pay for support costs.
business will pay for support where users won't.
Which is why the OP said that they'll start focusing on the enterprise eventually, if they wish to become profitable. Selling services to end users is nice in theory but I don't think that it will pan out in practice.