Edubuntu and Canonical in Russia

[Richard Weideman]

Hello Vladimir,

> > But in our country GPL is not legal without a
> > representative of legal owner.
Do you have any comment on this ?

Anton, Vladimir works for Canonical and looks after the Ubuntu OEM
business in Russia.

Regards
Richard

On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 00:43 +0400, Anton Shaleyev wrote:
> Hello!
> May be you know that the Russian Federation is a country with great
> number of non-legal Microsoft Windows users. In nowadays Microsoft
> with our government is searching for users without license. The first
> have condemned the principal of public school in Altay (Ponosov).
> This is a one of reasons why a lot of users (commercial and private)
> choose Linux. But in our country GPL is not legal without a
> representative of legal owner.
> I think the Edubuntu is the excellent OS for Education, in the any way
> better and more cheaply than Windows Vista. But without representative
> of Canonical we cannot use it in our educational process.
> Now Russian government is looking for the OS which will satisfied all
> Russian education standards for High and Middle ( like USA K12)
> education.
> Today 3 legal candidates for this system: Microsoft, ALTLinux and
> Mandriva. First and last have representatives in Russia. ALTLinux is
> Russian firm.
> Why Canonical is not interesting in the Russian governmental customer?
> And how it is possible to eliminate license problems with GPL in Russia?
> 
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