Star Shuttleworth on Dell, Greg KH, More
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 10th Nov 2008 19:08 UTC
Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu Last week, during Ubuntu's OpenWeek, Mark Shuttleworth joined in for a two hour Q&A session, where he answered a wide range of questions regarding Ubuntu and its parent company, Canonical. They ranged from questions regarding Canonical's relationship with Dell, all the way up to Shuttleworth's response to Greg Kroah-Hartman's criticism of Canonical.
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WorknMan
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So do I think Greg should go after Amazon in a similar fashion? Not at all. Linux is free (as in freedom.) That means you can use it without giving back. That means you are free to become a free rider if you want to. Companies who give a lot back upstream should be rewarded. These are companies like IBM, Intel, Red Hat, Oracle and Novell, among others. But if we get into endless bickering about free riders, this makes the Linux community appear vindictive and petty. Just using Linux makes the ecosystem so much bigger for the rest of us. This is why it's so important that anyone can use it as they wish.


Ya, when you have a system like this, you've got to realize that a lot of people are going to leech off of it and never give anything back ... kind of like socialism, I guess ;) If you don't like that, then don't make it available for free.

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