Originally posted by lowlands
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I mean, seriously; why is this a difficult thing to comprehend? Canonical is owned by a Debian developer who wants to invest his money in a certain way, which obviously has never been to maximize profits. Instead of taking revenues and selling Ubuntu licenses for as much money as people will pay, he's chosen to increase his investment as his revenues grow, which is his right. If he wanted to, he could just cut new expenses and start taking profits and then you would be so happy, right?
But the idea that Ubuntu must be unsuccessful because it's not generating billions of dollars from all the non-paying users it has, is just weird. It seems to me that the people who have come to believe that Canonical is a giant empire that does whatever it takes to commercialize Linux, are confused whenever the evidence clearly proves them wrong. In many instances, the whole ideology seems to be that it can't be wrong, because people on the internet are saying it.
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