Who Deserves Free Ubuntu CDs More?

A few weeks ago, Canonical announced that the ShipIt program, which provides Ubuntu CDs for free, would be scaled back in order to cut costs. Fair enough, but is the new strategy–which centers around making free CDs available only to people already active in the Ubuntu community–in line with the principles that underpin the Ubuntu project? Here are some thoughts.

Those of us living in North America, where few ISPs have gotten around to charging for bandwidth and high-speed Internet connections are available relatively cheaply in most areas, might have a hard time imagining that in other parts of the world, downloading and burning an Ubuntu ISO image can be beyond the means of many people.

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