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Mark Shuttleworth, the South African Linux hacker and millionaire, owner of the company Canonical which sponsors Ubuntu, told in an interview with ChannelRegister that Ubuntu is going commercial.
Thus, Ubuntu will no longer be a community based Operating System.

Mr Shuttleworth also has a distant intention, somewhere in the future, of recouping some of the $10m a year he funnels into Ubuntu, and trying to turn it into some kind of profitable business.

It’s time to recover the costs …
My question is, how will Ubuntu’s policy be? How will it change?
Ubuntu has gained a popularity for its reliability, stability, performance, and mainly, for its costless media. I think that any change would decrease that popularity in favor of Windows.
I am reading The Ubuntu Promise from the CD package. Those are the points:

• Ubuntu will always be free of charge, including entreprise releases and security updates.
• Ubuntu comes with full commercial support from Canonical and hundreds of companies around the world.
• Ubuntu includes the very best translations and accessibility infrastructure that the free software community has to offer.
• Ubuntu CDs contain only free software applications, we encourage u to use free and open source software, improve it and pass it on.

Let’s not forget the meaning of Ubuntu, an ancient African word which means “Humanity to others”. Mandela defined Ubuntu as:

Ubuntu does not mean that people should not address themselves. The question therefore is, are you going to do so in order to enable the community around you, and enable it to improve? These are the important things in life. And if one can do that, you have done something very important which will be appreciated.

Ubuntu, the end of the Myth? We will see …

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