I suppose you could always mail them a cheque, they might even cash it.
As I've said before, I don't see how this kind on monetisation would be practical for Ubuntu unless they took chunks of their software (such as Unity) and made them closed source.
If there was a sticker price attached to Ubuntu and an activation system (ala Windows) somebody would simply fork the code minus the activation and make a free clone.
Basically the same as Redhat/CentOS.
Their best way of monetising the desktop is probably to make their app store less crappy and get some paid apps in there.
If they can't get enough third parties involved , maybe they can get the ball rolling with their own proprietary paid apps.
Their main customer base right now is probably developers, so a good start might be a nice GUI DB admin tool and a good debugging proxy (ala Fiddler) and they could start monetising tomorrow.
As I've said before, I don't see how this kind on monetisation would be practical for Ubuntu unless they took chunks of their software (such as Unity) and made them closed source.
If there was a sticker price attached to Ubuntu and an activation system (ala Windows) somebody would simply fork the code minus the activation and make a free clone.
Basically the same as Redhat/CentOS.
Their best way of monetising the desktop is probably to make their app store less crappy and get some paid apps in there.
If they can't get enough third parties involved , maybe they can get the ball rolling with their own proprietary paid apps.
Their main customer base right now is probably developers, so a good start might be a nice GUI DB admin tool and a good debugging proxy (ala Fiddler) and they could start monetising tomorrow.