Topic: Ubuntu loses its virginity, turns commercial

[Simon]

From the time the Ubuntu distribution was first released nearly four years ago, the people behind it have tried to never put a foot wrong. Every single decision about the distribution has been geared to try and satisfy both their own brand of users and the general FOSS community.

Last week, however, Mark Shuttleworth, the head of Canonical, the firm that runs the Ubuntu project, made a decision that he will come to regret: to sell proprietary codecs for the distribution. Let me say it again - Shuttleworth will come to rue this move.

http://www.itwire.com/content/view/20762/1090/

[sam]

I wont pay for it... if needs be I'll go over to Debian... a proper and completely open source distro.

[Simon]

Isn't it going against the whole principal of open source, to start selling it?

[Reno]

Open source has more to do with fixing bugs and making sure those fixes are shared rather than buying and selling.

[sam]

Isn't it going against the whole principal of open source, to start selling it?

well yeah, but its not really selling the whole OS just proprietary software on top of that, I guess its like install photoshop, which of course you pay for...