Hi All<br><br>Just seen this on slashdot, Microsoft &#39;was&#39; offering Ubuntu from the Market Place website <a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~3/127061174/article.pl">http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~3/127061174/article.pl
</a><br><br><a href="http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:D1ZIAHrGuGIJ:www.windowsmarketplace.com/details.aspx%3Fitemid%3D3411347+ubuntu+windowsmarketplace&amp;hl=en&amp;ct=clnk&amp;cd=1&amp;gl=us">http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:D1ZIAHrGuGIJ:www.windowsmarketplace.com/details.aspx%3Fitemid%3D3411347+ubuntu+windowsmarketplace&amp;hl=en&amp;ct=clnk&amp;cd=1&amp;gl=us
</a><br><br>(Sorry about the long link above)<br><br>I&#39;m wondering if the offer was withdrawn at Mr Shuttleworths request or did MS withdraw it themselves seeing as they got the concept of GPL slightly wrong which makes me laugh as they have done nothing but litigate licensing over the last 10 years or so.
<br><br>Actually this begs an interesting question, we all extol the  virtues of Freely downloadable so how does Microsoft offering &#39;Download Space&#39; for Linux Distro&#39;s&#39; sit with the community? For me personally in line with the Freedom ethos I don&#39;t have a problem with it. what&#39;s your view?
<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Regards<br><br>Dick Turpin<br><br>Arch Linux is an independent i686-optimized community distribution for intermediate and advanced Linux users. Utilising a Rolling Release System packages are regularly updated and an ISO release is just a snapshot to the stable packages at that time. So there&#39;s no need for a fresh install the command 'pacman –Syu' upgrades the whole system.