The Ubuntu Linux distribution has always been free. It’s also always welcomed donations from users. Historically, though, the donation page hasn’t been featured prominently on the Ubuntu website. As of yesterday, users who download Ubuntu are now invited to donate to Ubuntu.
It’s important to note two things. First, donations are completely voluntary.
Since its beginning, Canonical has worked hard to attract business. But now the company is also accepting user donations to support development of its main product, Ubuntu Linux. Is this simply a belated emulation of the main revenue strategy of many other open source projects, or does it have a more important meaning?
Mark Shuttleworth always said that Ubuntu will forever be free, but that doesn't mean that users can't contribute financially to Ubuntu's development. Canonical, the developer of Ubuntu operating systems, has introduced a donation page, right before users access the download link for the distribution. Despite people's claims that t... (read more)
In a recent post on the Free Software Foundation blog, Richard Stallman has called upon Linux advocates to reject Ubuntu, claiming the Amazon search integration in the Ubuntu 12.10 contains dangerous
"surveillance code."
The creator of the GNU Project accuses Canonical for including a search feature in the latest version that sends packets to Canonical's own servers without al
After buying and installing a game via the Ubuntu Software Centre, I find the software does not work. But where do I turn to for support?
The game company says it does not support its game ported to Linux as they seemingly where not involved in that. Ubuntu does not seem to provide support unless I pay for it (again) and it seems totally unfair to bug the user community with this issue.
Running stable software often means sacrificing the latest and greatest software features — especially in the open source world, where development cycles tend to be rapid and bleeding edge code is available to anyone who dares run it.
Canonical has made available an interesting statistic about the top paid application that were sold through Ubuntu Software Center.
Surprisingly, the chart with the most download free apps from Ubuntu Software Center contains fewer games than the one enumerating the paid apps.
The tenth place is occupied by Maj... (read more)
Canonical releases source code for Launchpad
Release of Launchpad to encourage innovation
London
July 21, 2009: Canonical, the founder of the Ubuntu project, announced
today that it has open-sourced the code that runs Launchpad, the
software development and collaboration platform used by tens of
thousands of developers.
We had already done an article on the Top free apps in the Ubuntu Software Center. Now its time to check out the top paid apps in the Ubuntu Software Centre. According to the official reports from Canonical, Trauma is leading the pack following by the Fluendo DVD player. Games and mulitimedia seem to be the preferred choice of Ubuntu users when it comes to paid stuff.
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