Banshee Amazon Store disabled in Ubuntu 11.04 by Canonical (Network World)

Posted Feb 16, 2011 17:28 UTC (Wed) by Thue (guest, #14277)
In reply to: Banshee Amazon Store disabled in Ubuntu 11.04 by Canonical (Network World) by cdamian
Parent article: Banshee Amazon Store disabled in Ubuntu 11.04 by Canonical (Network World)

Except that unlike Apple
1) The user is free to install the Amazon store on their own
2) Anybody can make a Ubuntu derivative which includes the Amazon store

The money for free software has to come from somewhere. If this is the solution, then I can personally live with it.

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Banshee Amazon Store disabled in Ubuntu 11.04 by Canonical (Network World)

Posted Feb 16, 2011 17:33 UTC (Wed) by cdamian (subscriber, #1271) [Link] (1 responses)

I obviously didn't mean it that serious. But it is one reason why I like Fedora, who just make their money in a different way.

Banshee Amazon Store disabled in Ubuntu 11.04 by Canonical (Network World)

Posted Feb 16, 2011 18:01 UTC (Wed) by jspaleta (subscriber, #50639) [Link]

Fedora doesn't make money.

Red Hat makes money.

Red Hat spends some of the money it makes providing the infrastructure that Fedora uses.

Red Hat _deliberately_ separated Fedora as a brand to differentiate it to better separate community efforts from monetization efforts to _reduce_ the surface over which conflicts of interest between business interests and community interests overlap and get mixed up. They are not completely separated, because community interests will always be wider than available resources which Red Hat can prudently provide Fedora and still remain a solvent business.

-jef