> The guys from Armbian, Ubuntu and other users work, and Orange Pi just sells and makes money.
Xunlong is among few companies that actually supports Armbian with a donation. But most of the costs are still our private ones. End user donations covers only
1/365 days per year ... if everything else would be free.
Ubuntu/Canonical is business entity. A corporation that sell services and they mainly resell 3rd party Debian software and invest very little into the public domain development. In case of hardware in question, IMO virtually nothing. Support is developed almost entirely by communities around Armbian and sunxi (
http://sunxi.org/), chip companies, board vendors, ...