Oracle intersted in buying Ubunutu

[Alexander Jacob Tsykin]

On Wednesday 19 April 2006 15:33, Daniel Robitaille wrote:
> On 4/18/06, Alexander Jacob Tsykin <stsykin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 19 April 2006 14:14, Daniel Robitaille wrote:
> > > In some ways that what's I was expecting when we heard that Mark
> > > bought ImpiLinux last year:  keep a free Ubuntu we all know and use,
> > > but have a parallel "Ubuntu-Plus" that is no-free (but still very
> > > affortable) with all the non-free/libre stuff all ready for the users.
> >
> > That would run counter to the Ubuntu philosophy:
> >
> > "Ubuntu will always be free of charge, and there is no extra fee for
> > the "enterprise edition", we make our very best work available to
> > everyone on the same Free terms." (http://www.ubuntu.com)
> >
> > I don't think he would want to do that.
>
> Essentially it is Mepis, but under Mark's control.  Nobody said
> anything about charging for Ubuntu. I'm was hypothetically talking
> about a totally different distro that just happen to have the same
> core than Ubuntu, but with the extra bits non free available for a
> small amount of money.
I understood that, but if he wanted to do that, he would not have made the 
Ubuntu philosophy what it is.

Sasha