Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:12:44 +0100 From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: "Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fwd: Dell is asking what free OS to preinstall Message-ID: <86odmv505v.fsf@dwp.des.no> In-Reply-To: <ef10de9a0703140747pf7a7806wc39830848dc71d7d@mail.gmail.com> (Nikolas Britton's message of "Wed, 14 Mar 2007 09:47:04 -0500") References: <e8b5dfd50703131232s36327cb2w1530887698a2a48d@mail.gmail.com> <200703132028.l2DKSN8E085575@fire.jhs.private> <ef10de9a0703131417l6c5f67d2r2ba63449dda6fb39@mail.gmail.com> <cd08a04c0703131529w705e9ea9m5e4b996e0d291de0@mail.gmail.com> <ef10de9a0703131945l1806eeaatd7de96eb62fd698b@mail.gmail.com> <864poo5cs7.fsf@dwp.des.no> <ef10de9a0703140747pf7a7806wc39830848dc71d7d@mail.gmail.com>
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"Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> writes: > Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav <des@des.no> writes: > > "Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> writes: > > > From the choices available Ubuntu is the only one developed and > > > maintained by individuals with no commercial backing. > > Ubuntu is developed and maintained by Canonical Ltd. (see > > http://www.canonical.com/projects/ubuntu). > "The Debian Project is an association of individuals who have made > common cause to create a free operating system. This operating system > that we have created is called Debian GNU/Linux, or simply Debian for > short." Ubuntu is not Debian. It is a derivative of Debian maintained by a commercial entity. The only difference between Canonical and RedHat or Novell in that respect is that Canonical charge only for support, not for the software. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no
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