I played with SUSE Linux a while ago. I either was dual booting my Mac at the time or was using different hard drives. I forget which.

I like Linux better than Windows, but I still with my OS X :)

It doesn’t surprise me that they charge something for Ununtu One. The costs scale differently than a site that just offers downloads.

If you run a site that has a 100MB download, you use 100MB of storage, and your bandwidth is 100 MB/user. At that point, you no more costs associated with that user (until you release an update).

With a storage service, you’re using many gigabytes of storage and users are repeatedly uploading and downloading data.

I’m not commenting on whether the price is fair, just that it costs them more per user to offer storage that it does to offer downloads of their product.
.-= Kosmo @ The Casual Observer´s last blog ..The Major League Baseball Draft =-.