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minus-squareRioting Pacifist@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down5·3 months agoBecause not selling your product to the 5th largest economy in the world is a dumb idea.
minus-squareHacksaw@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up4·3 months agoExcept the whole point is that it’s free and you’re not selling anything anyways.
minus-squareRioting Pacifist@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·3 months agoUbuntu is in fact sold and supported and that generates most of the money to fund it’s development.
minus-squareonlinepersona@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·3 months agoThe rest of the US is still available?
minus-squareBusyBoredom@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up9·3 months agoCalifornia on its own is the 5th largest economy in the world.
minus-squareFerk@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 months agoIt recently overtook Japan, so it’s 4th now…
minus-squareonlinepersona@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·3 months agoAnd the rest of the US is unimportant?
minus-squareBusyBoredom@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down1·3 months agoNot unimportant, just irrelevant to this conversation, this is about California.
minus-squareonlinepersona@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·3 months agoIt is not. Leave California and serve the rest of the country.
Because not selling your product to the 5th largest economy in the world is a dumb idea.
Except the whole point is that it’s free and you’re not selling anything anyways.
Ubuntu is in fact sold and supported and that generates most of the money to fund it’s development.
The rest of the US is still available?
California on its own is the 5th largest economy in the world.
It recently overtook Japan, so it’s 4th now…
And the rest of the US is unimportant?
Not unimportant, just irrelevant to this conversation, this is about California.
It is not. Leave California and serve the rest of the country.