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Canonical doesn't release Ubuntu for free because they want to , and they don't release it out of the goodness of their hearts. They release Ubuntu for free because most of their target audience wouldn't pay for it. They release often because rapid updates make them look like they're doing a lot of work (they aren't), because it's expected (they don't do any of the work anyway) and because it generates support calls (which aren't free).
Why isn't OS X free? Apple doesn't want it to be, and what they do get allows them to recoup the cost of development which allows the profit margins on their hardware to mean more to the bottom line.
Ubuntu is a commercial distro, just like Red Hat's, Novell's, whatever Lindows calls themselves now and a few others. They're the wrong distros to level at OS X if you want to argue about money making since all of them exist to make their parent companies money. They just go about it a little differently.
If you want to use goodness of their hearts Linux distros, you'd have to move to Debian, Gentoo or Slackware or maybe some of the little hardly touched ones.
Canonical doesn't release Ubuntu for free because they want to , and they don't release it out of the goodness of their hearts. They release Ubuntu for free because most of their target audience wouldn't pay for it. They release often because rapid updates make them look like they're doing a lot of work (they aren't), because it's expected (they don't do any of the work anyway) and because it generates support calls (which aren't free).
Why isn't OS X free? Apple doesn't want it to be, and what they do get allows them to recoup the cost of development which allows the profit margins on their hardware to mean more to the bottom line.
Ubuntu is a commercial distro, just like Red Hat's, Novell's, whatever Lindows calls themselves now and a few others. They're the wrong distros to level at OS X if you want to argue about money making since all of them exist to make their parent companies money. They just go about it a little differently.
If you want to use goodness of their hearts Linux distros, you'd have to move to Debian, Gentoo or Slackware or maybe some of the little hardly touched ones.
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