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    • StrongBadS
      StrongBad @DustinB3403
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      @DustinB3403 said in Ubuntu News: Massive Downsizing and Searching for Funding:

      Obviously Ubuntu Enterprise would have support and licensing much like RedHat does today.

      Ubuntu already has a model that is nearly identical to that. Ubuntu (paid) handles the supported version and Ubuntu (free) does not get support. Other than having only one name instead of two names for the same product, it's just like Red Hat's model in that way.

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      • matteo nunziatiM
        matteo nunziati
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        I think it is just shuttleworth-how-you-write-this who does not want to fund the company more. They are searching for fund raising in the private market.

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        • scottalanmillerS
          scottalanmiller
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          Maybe that is all that it is. He's tired of it.

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          • IRJI
            IRJ @DustinB3403
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            @DustinB3403 said in Ubuntu News: Massive Downsizing and Searching for Funding:

            The timing of it all, screams bad business decisions were made, and are trying to be corrected. Just like any other business who is coming across hard times.

            Let's not forget their mobile OS which was in the works for years and totally flopped.

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            • IRJI
              IRJ
              last edited by IRJ

              The windows phone was a Rockstar in comparison.

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              • IRJI
                IRJ
                last edited by IRJ

                It was called Ubuntu touch. It was started in 2011.

                https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Touch

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                • scottalanmillerS
                  scottalanmiller @IRJ
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                  @IRJ said in Ubuntu News: Massive Downsizing and Searching for Funding:

                  The windows phone was a Rockstar in comparison.

                  Sad but true.

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                  • IRJI
                    IRJ @scottalanmiller
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                    @scottalanmiller said in Ubuntu News: Massive Downsizing and Searching for Funding:

                    @IRJ said in Ubuntu News: Massive Downsizing and Searching for Funding:

                    The windows phone was a Rockstar in comparison.

                    Sad but true.

                    If i remember correctly, Ubuntu touch just got one low end hardware phone to host their OS at launch, and it was only available in Europe.

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                    • DustinB3403D
                      DustinB3403 @IRJ
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                      @IRJ said in Ubuntu News: Massive Downsizing and Searching for Funding:

                      @scottalanmiller said in Ubuntu News: Massive Downsizing and Searching for Funding:

                      @IRJ said in Ubuntu News: Massive Downsizing and Searching for Funding:

                      The windows phone was a Rockstar in comparison.

                      Sad but true.

                      If i remember correctly, Ubuntu touch just got one low end hardware phone to host their OS at launch, and it was only available in Europe.

                      Yeah, and they wanted a lot of money for the phone too. (at least I thought it was a lot)

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                      • scottalanmillerS
                        scottalanmiller
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                        Yeah, something like the Ubuntu phone needed to be cheap or it just would not make sense, at least on initial release.

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                        • matteo nunziatiM
                          matteo nunziati
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                          anyway I hate to say: I was right

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                          • scottalanmillerS
                            scottalanmiller
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                            https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/04/12/a-new-vantage-point/

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