Which ones dont monetize their OS? Its not that they are uniquely important. Its that its perfectly fine to monetize their own os. They are selling a service that is additional support for users that want it. Pretty simple stuff, you see users asking for this stuff all the time.
Why shouldn’t they be able to offer additional paid support for their own distro? Why does it matter
Poof them out of existence, and what, outside of their own direct projects, breaks?
There are a lot of linux distros, and the few that do monetize their OS are the exception to the rule.
The vast majority of Linux OSs… they’re not selling a product or service like Windows.
The… code… is open source.
That means anyone can, and people often do, copy the entire thing, make some tweaks, kablamo!
New Linux OS.
Its kinda the whole point of libre software.
It doesn’t operate by the norms of propietary software, profit motives.
As to your second part… you are the one claiming Canonical does some significant service for or to Linux as a whole.
Ok, so, I used to run and admin dbs and such.
Sometimes, a thing you can do, if you think some system or subsystem is just broken or useless or is already effectively fully deprecated…
Well, you build up your new alternative, tell people to switch over to it, and then one day you just turn off the old system, unnannounced.
Then, if you get flooded with emails from people ssying they can’t do their work for some reason, you now know all these goobers have not been paying attention to their team lead and your emails telling them to switch away from Old System, for the past 3 months.
You just yank it out and see what breaks.
And if nothing really breaks… then why were we spending time and money keeping it working?
So, if we view all of Linux as a larger ecosystem, and we yank out Canonical…
What, in the larger ecosystem, breaks?
You are the one who said they do very importsnt things for the ecosystem.
To which I again say: Such as?
If they are important, things would strain or break if they disappeared.
If they can disappear and no one outside of Ubuntu users notices… then… they were not important to the larger ecosystem.
Which ones dont monetize their OS? Its not that they are uniquely important. Its that its perfectly fine to monetize their own os. They are selling a service that is additional support for users that want it. Pretty simple stuff, you see users asking for this stuff all the time.
Why shouldn’t they be able to offer additional paid support for their own distro? Why does it matter
How is this relevant at all?
Uh, basically 0 Linux distros monetize their OS.
There are a lot of linux distros, and the few that do monetize their OS are the exception to the rule.
The vast majority of Linux OSs… they’re not selling a product or service like Windows.
The… code… is open source.
That means anyone can, and people often do, copy the entire thing, make some tweaks, kablamo!
New Linux OS.
Its kinda the whole point of libre software.
It doesn’t operate by the norms of propietary software, profit motives.
As to your second part… you are the one claiming Canonical does some significant service for or to Linux as a whole.
Ok, so, I used to run and admin dbs and such.
Sometimes, a thing you can do, if you think some system or subsystem is just broken or useless or is already effectively fully deprecated…
Well, you build up your new alternative, tell people to switch over to it, and then one day you just turn off the old system, unnannounced.
Then, if you get flooded with emails from people ssying they can’t do their work for some reason, you now know all these goobers have not been paying attention to their team lead and your emails telling them to switch away from Old System, for the past 3 months.
You just yank it out and see what breaks.
And if nothing really breaks… then why were we spending time and money keeping it working?
So, if we view all of Linux as a larger ecosystem, and we yank out Canonical…
What, in the larger ecosystem, breaks?
You are the one who said they do very importsnt things for the ecosystem.
To which I again say: Such as?
If they are important, things would strain or break if they disappeared.
If they can disappear and no one outside of Ubuntu users notices… then… they were not important to the larger ecosystem.