[Eug-lug] Free Ubuntu Stickers

[T. Joseph Carter]

On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 07:30:06PM -0700, larry price wrote:
> On 8/14/06, Bob Miller <kbob at jogger-egg.com> wrote:
> >I wonder if Canonical has a clever plan to derive some revenue from
> >Ubuntu Server now.  That billboard can't be cheap.
> 
> Canonical is already setting the stage to be able to sell commercial
> software to the Linux Desktop
> (see http://packages.ubuntulinux.org/dapper/x11/app-install-data-commercial 
> )

I have this horrible memory of Progeny's sekrit internal discussion about
the possibility of extending apt so that it could decrypt packages with an
authorization key before installing them.  There was even discussion of
the possibility of adding support to contact an https server listed in the
package metadata to submit payment directly from apt-get.

apt-get buy autocad

I expect Canonical is probably not going be implementing that into apt
directly, thankfully.