[nylug-talk] dell and ubuntu

[Sunny Dubey]

On Thursday 31 May 2007 07:29:39 am Zachary Stern wrote:
> I wouldn't be surprised if they DO pay Canonical $0. Dell says they will
> only provide hardware, and no software support on the linux boxes. They say
> software support will come from Canonical. If that software support is
> INCLUDED (which I doubt), then sure they must pay Canonical something, but
> not for Ubuntu itself. If its not included, then why should they pay
> Canonical a dime? (Not that Canonical doesn't deserve the money)

I'd totally support a "Linux Tax".

I don't think that an extra $20/30 USD is going to be a deal breaker when 
people are spending $500+ for something specific.  And it makes distro 
development more economically stable and sustainable.  (I've always been 
mildly amused at how Redhat is the only to throw money and people at projects 
critical to Linux: NPTL, IcedTea, etc)

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