Selling users to Amazon and the money they get from their services is not
enugh? I don't recall redhat doing suff like that to make money (I refer to
the selling users to some other company fact).
Yes, they have to make money, and yes, I agree they make money by targeting
phones (for example) but why didn't they target projects like openmoko in the
first place? with the fame they have they would probably make the phone grow
instantly. They went directly for the proprietary stuff without hesitation
and that is undeniable.
Do you remember the tremendous amount of money they ask for the Ubuntu edge?
I do, that quantity was imposible to reach, they where selling smoke, and
they where also testing the predisposition people have to get what Canonical
makes.
They can try a lot of things before doing things like selling people to other
companies like offering courses and certificates, take advantage of openmoko
instead of making it's own closed sourced phone, trying to sell maintenance
like redhat (I'm using redhat as an example but I know they are not perfect)
does, etc...
