On Wednesday 23 August 2006 03:52, Marcus Meissner wrote:
Ubuntu is shouting about their Long Term Support, Quoting: "Ubuntu is freely available, including security updates for five years on servers, with no restrictions on usage and no requirement to purchase support contracts or subscriptions per deployment.".
Where is the money coming from? Please ask yourself this question. At some point in time Marks money might run out, or he might lose interest...
One has to worry about that. They charge $700+/- dollars a year for paid support, but its not clear how many are paying, or how good the support is. Under this desk I have 4 boxed sets of SuSE, (well three SuSE and one SUSE) and I've always believed in buying the boxes because it was worth it to me to have them stay in business. Always made my customers buy it too. Did I tell you the story about the very young sounding dutch girl that called from Canonical in the EU and asked my company address so they could mail me 30 copies of Hoary? I live in Alaska for Christ Sake! Called me out of the blue, and two weeks later a battered box shows up!! 30 copies. Said to give the away. 2 months later the new release came out. The cost for disposing of CD Roms in EU landfills must be higher than trans-Atlantic postage! -- _____________________________________ John Andersen