On Tuesday 10 October 2006 16:50, Dinesh Shah wrote: > > Ubuntu should be considered as a business in "Investment Phase", > where business invests to create it's market share. I had a long > discussion with Mark Shuttleworth on this when he was in India.
It's known as market seeding. > > But this in turn indicates, that much of the Free > > software over the internet are indeed, also, free as > > in bear, especially Linux distros. Where is the source > > of money for maintaining mirrors / servers for ISO's > > of these distros? Ads. Free resources on commercial servers used to attract potntial customers. So not all are charity. > This is termed as "Donation Economy". However, I am not in favour > of such an economy. Such a economy is not sustainable over long > period of time. Absolutely. However in this case the donations are not out of some social guilty but plain business. It costs a lot less to host a server than it does to hire a team of developers / debuggers and a ware house full of hardware. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
