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Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution, announced on July 22 at the Ubuntu Live conference in Portland, Ore., the availability of Landscape, its Web-based systems management program for Ubuntu servers and desktops.

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spikeb

17 years 10 weeks 3 days 2 hours ago

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horray, yet more proprietary crap

horray, yet more proprietary crap from canonical. i am very disappointed.

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lindi

17 years 10 weeks 3 days 2 hours ago

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Heh, I was just going to say the

Heh, I was just going to say the same! ;-)

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spikeb

17 years 10 weeks 3 days 1 hour ago

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i really like ubuntu as a distro,

i really like ubuntu as a distro, but enough is enough. I refuse to support a proprietary software company. will move to debian or fedora soon

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mattflaschen

17 years 9 weeks 4 days 14 hours ago

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Yet another key Canonical platform

Yet another key Canonical platform based on proprietary software. No doubt they will point out that all the software they write and distribute is free (as in freedom), but even this may change eventually.

Like Google, they seem to specializing in locking people into important services by keeping the software proprietary. When you compare to Debian (from which Ubuntu took much free distribution-management software), you can see the issue.

This policy does seem to be a contradiction of their old policy, "Ubuntu will always be free of charge, and there is no extra fee for the 'enterprise edition'" (http://web.archive.org/web/20060424212509/www.ubuntu.com/), not that the fee is really the issue (freedom is).

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