"Canonical announced today the availability of Landscape, its web-based systems management tool for Ubuntu servers and desktops. Available to Canonical's support subscribers, Landscape provides a key tool for the growing number of businesses that want to take advantage of the ease of use of Ubuntu and have previously seen system administration or support as a hurdle."
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Member since:2005-11-10
Canonical are offering easier Linux support, which will hopefully increase adoption. Precisely what is dying in this scenario?? This is a support tool at the end of the day. Many companies are being very succesful in using and selling Linux.
And either way, commerical software for Linux is also a good sign of health. Linux simply isn't going to dent Microsoft unless there is closed sourced software for it as well open source software.
I haven't a clue what you're trying to state.
Member since:2005-11-15
I haven't a clue what you're trying to state.
OK, let me be blunt: If Canonical open-sourced absolutely all the code they write (including Landscape in this case), maybe they wouldn't make any money. After all, if Landscape is not open source, there must be a reason for it.
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2005-11-15
This does seem to be another nail in the coffin of the "open source everything and make money on support" idea.