Why is Ubuntu always absolutely free?

Ubuntu (release) is a Linux family, and everyone is called the software boutique. The so-called "absolute" means that there is no condition, no restriction. So, how can Ubuntu be forever absolutely free? Is this not a persuasive propaganda or an unfulfilled rhetoric? What is the basis for this "absolutely free" statement? Why?

On the homepage of the official Ubuntu website, there is a word: "Ubuntu is, and always would be, absolutely free", for us Chinese, this is a bit too naïve (it is too dazzling), very inappropriate. Where would there be such good things as "pie in the sky"? Many people do not believe that they think it is a commercial bait, or even a trap or a trap. Someone once said to me in person, Ubuntu is rabbit tail long, the money a flower, it will not be. Now, time has been over 5 years, Ubuntu not only did not die, and the more live healthier, more alive and stronger. What is the reason for this? In the past, I am absolutely free of Ubuntu, in the heart of a little bit of doubt, and later, gradually do not take it as a matter of (do not care), even the official Ubuntu website for a long time not to see. The release of the Ubuntu 10.10 Beta release, I on the official Ubuntu website to see, big out of my expectation, almost what the original statement or the formulation of the problem has changed (old saying, I remember very clearly), is that the above sentence completely unchanged. As I began to feel the weight of the remark, I began to think deeply about the truth.

Simply put, Google is search free, advertising services fees; Ubuntu (strictly speaking, is canonical company) is software free, technical service charges, both of the free is a truth, not directly from the main customers to make money. Google is a company that makes money while Ubuntu is a large company (its partners) making money. Google makes money on the premise that the quality of the search, Ubuntu make money is the premise of the software (that is, Ubuntu itself) the quality of good. In short, the better the quality of Ubuntu, the more users, that a large company (Enterprise) The more money, Ubuntu is the leader, that a large company is a dragon body, the two can not be separated.

There are 4 categories of Ubuntu Partners: Cloud computing, software, solutions and training, see the official website "Find a Partner", where cloud computing partners mainly include: Amazon (Amazon) page Services (AWS) company, Eucalyptus Systems, Inc. and other 8 world-class well-known partners. To put it simply, even Amazon's business needs to have excellent quality and really free Ubuntu front end. Ubuntu Software partners have dozens of, among which the more famous are MySQL (database) and Openbravo (System integration) and so on. Ubuntu Solutions Partners also have dozens of, and their names are hardly familiar to us. Ubuntu Training Partners all over the world, Asia only Taiwan's Geego education company. So far, the time has passed for more than 5 years, a benign global cycle, Ubuntu continued to develop a good situation has been formed. The main business of these Ubuntu partner companies is based on this absolutely free product Ubuntu. However, the mainland of China is completely blank, no company is Ubuntu partner, this is not surprising, there is "domestic" Linux in the door! Now, we finally understand a truth (or know a fact): Ubuntu is absolutely free, the more users the better, this is not a myth, but an objective demand. In fact, Ubuntu must be done well, made of fine, regular production, not wrong, for example, October 10 this year, the new version of Ubuntu 10.10 must be released on time, waiting for the breast is a large company. Linux to fight against, is to clear this ideological barrier, open the door to meet the ever absolutely free of charge of the arrival of the Linux large army. "Homemade" Linux dream of Fortune can be closed! What's wrong with absolutely free software? Why don't we grab the business?

Note 1: Someone heard that "absolutely free", on the gas will be unconscious to send hospital first aid. I am very worried about them, because this is the fact that will soon happen.

Illustration 2: My critics are also very tired, because I change the subject almost every day. Thanks a lot!

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Why is Ubuntu always absolutely free?