Ubuntu News: Massive Downsizing and Searching for Funding
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Canonical is only able to turn a profit by providing actual support to people. People who use the software, don't turn into dollars.
If Canonical went the same route as Red Hat, and limited access or changed development focus to have two different versions, then I could seem them making a better profit.
But of course, you'd have a fork in the project, one community support (ie CentOS) and the other business supported.
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@DustinB3403 said in Ubuntu News: Massive Downsizing and Searching for Funding:
Canonical is only able to turn a profit by providing actual support to people. People who use the software, don't turn into dollars.
Can't sell support if you don't have customers.
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@Reid-Cooper said in Ubuntu News: Massive Downsizing and Searching for Funding:
@DustinB3403 said in Ubuntu News: Massive Downsizing and Searching for Funding:
Canonical is only able to turn a profit by providing actual support to people. People who use the software, don't turn into dollars.
Can't sell support if you don't have customers.
Can't have customers if your product doesn't need support.
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@DustinB3403 said in Ubuntu News: Massive Downsizing and Searching for Funding:
If Canonical went the same route as Red Hat, and limited access or changed development focus to have two different versions, then I could seem them making a better profit.
How would having two names for the same product change their profitability?
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@Reid-Cooper said in Ubuntu News: Massive Downsizing and Searching for Funding:
@DustinB3403 said in Ubuntu News: Massive Downsizing and Searching for Funding:
If Canonical went the same route as Red Hat, and limited access or changed development focus to have two different versions, then I could seem them making a better profit.
How would having two names for the same product change their profitability?
The same way that RedHat and CentOS exist.
Here is the end of Ubuntu Server, and here is Ubuntu Enterprise. The community edition could carry the Ubuntu title. etc.
Different platforms, and different development teams working to maintain the product.
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Obviously Ubuntu Enterprise would have support and licensing much like RedHat does today.
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@DustinB3403 said in Ubuntu News: Massive Downsizing and Searching for Funding:
@Reid-Cooper said in Ubuntu News: Massive Downsizing and Searching for Funding:
@DustinB3403 said in Ubuntu News: Massive Downsizing and Searching for Funding:
If Canonical went the same route as Red Hat, and limited access or changed development focus to have two different versions, then I could seem them making a better profit.
How would having two names for the same product change their profitability?
The same way that RedHat and CentOS exist.
Here is the end of Ubuntu Server, and here is Ubuntu Enterprise. The community edition could carry the Ubuntu title. etc.
Different platforms, and different development teams working to maintain the product.
But that's NOT how Red Hat and CentOS work. CentOS only exists for historical reasons, not because it makes financial sense.
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@DustinB3403 said in Ubuntu News: Massive Downsizing and Searching for Funding:
Obviously Ubuntu Enterprise would have support and licensing much like RedHat does today.
Ubuntu already has a model that is nearly identical to that. Ubuntu (paid) handles the supported version and Ubuntu (free) does not get support. Other than having only one name instead of two names for the same product, it's just like Red Hat's model in that way.
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I think it is just shuttleworth-how-you-write-this who does not want to fund the company more. They are searching for fund raising in the private market.
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Maybe that is all that it is. He's tired of it.
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@DustinB3403 said in Ubuntu News: Massive Downsizing and Searching for Funding:
The timing of it all, screams bad business decisions were made, and are trying to be corrected. Just like any other business who is coming across hard times.
Let's not forget their mobile OS which was in the works for years and totally flopped.
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The windows phone was a Rockstar in comparison.
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It was called Ubuntu touch. It was started in 2011.
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@IRJ said in Ubuntu News: Massive Downsizing and Searching for Funding:
The windows phone was a Rockstar in comparison.
Sad but true.
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@scottalanmiller said in Ubuntu News: Massive Downsizing and Searching for Funding:
@IRJ said in Ubuntu News: Massive Downsizing and Searching for Funding:
The windows phone was a Rockstar in comparison.
Sad but true.
If i remember correctly, Ubuntu touch just got one low end hardware phone to host their OS at launch, and it was only available in Europe.
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@IRJ said in Ubuntu News: Massive Downsizing and Searching for Funding:
@scottalanmiller said in Ubuntu News: Massive Downsizing and Searching for Funding:
@IRJ said in Ubuntu News: Massive Downsizing and Searching for Funding:
The windows phone was a Rockstar in comparison.
Sad but true.
If i remember correctly, Ubuntu touch just got one low end hardware phone to host their OS at launch, and it was only available in Europe.
Yeah, and they wanted a lot of money for the phone too. (at least I thought it was a lot)
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Yeah, something like the Ubuntu phone needed to be cheap or it just would not make sense, at least on initial release.
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anyway I hate to say: I was right
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