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Time to choose, Ubuntu fans: rage or reason?

May 4, 2008
My post last week about Ubuntu's embrace of the profit motive (exemplified in sponsor Canonical's release of a proprietary and non-free management tool) triggered a pretty remarkable flood of venom and invective in my direction.
However, it does sometimes interfere with cognition. For example, a lot of the commenters on my post assumed that I was attacking Canonical and Mark Shuttleworth for wanting to make money. Nothing could be further from the truth. Just to be clear, let me state the following, which I place in italics in the hopes of snaring the attention even of those Ubuntu fans who don't read posts in their entirety before banging out enraged comments.

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For the past six years, Interop Systems has attracted over 15,000 members to its SUA / SFU / Interix Community with its community forums, online advice and free downloads. Interop Systems is grateful to Microsoft for its ongoing sponsorship of the site.

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Interop Systems hosts a growing collection of "hands-on" tutorials, tech notes, and videos on a variety of Windows interoperability subjects. The titles listed below were prepared by Interop Systems and sponsored in part by Microsoft. We welcome interoperability "how to" materials from groups within Microsoft and third party interoperability vendors. Our current titles are listed below. For more information, please visit our Learning Center.

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