Ideological differences when representing Ubuntu in events.

[Paul Tagliamonte]

On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 6:05 PM, Efrain Valles <effie-jayx at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> I would like to salute everyone out there representing Ubuntu in
> events around the globe. With this email, The Venezuelan Team seeks a
> bit of council with regards the things we go through when we decide to
> go out and promote Ubuntu in our country. We seek to share experiences
> and possible solutions that you around the globe may have found when
> facing similar situations.
>
> Since its beginnings, Ubuntu-ve has participated in the National
> Congress of Free Software and many other events where we share with
> sister projects of distributions and lugs. In recent years, the
> Ubuntu-ve has been put in situations where we participate in events
> and there is always a speaker or organizer of the event questioning
> Ubuntu's commitment with software freedom. This is something that we
> all know could lead to endless unfruitful conversations about ethics
> and other aspects. It is a good thing that over the years Ubuntu as a
> project has proved its solid commitment to Software Freedom and
> Ubuntu-ve has tried hard to convey that in our Local participation.
>
> This year, The National Summit of Free Software considered leaving out
> Ubuntu all together based on the differences between GNU project in
> Venezuela and their opinion on Ubuntu as Free Software.
>
> My worry lies with members that are joining the team and they see
> themselves being pointed at and receiving all this negative 5 year-old
> FUD statements that really wear out the spirit in some of the younger
> members of the team in really remote areas.
>
> I am sure Ubuntu-ve is not alone in this situation and I would
> definitely love to read you experiences with this issue. The
> Venezuelan Team would be very energized to read yoru thoughts.
>
> Warm hugs from Venezuela
>
> --
> Efrain Valles
> Ubuntu LoCo Council Member
> https://launchpad.net/~effie-jayx
>
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Howdy Venezuela,

Let them kindly know the default install of Ubuntu contains no nonfree
software. The user chooses to do so.

This is just as Debian, Fedora, Red Hat, Gentoo, Slackware ( and so on
) do things. Even something like gNewSense ( a F/OSS distro ) is able
to run nonfree.

Anyone who makes the claim Ubuntu is not F/OSS is misguided. We
provide non-free options to those who use them, but by _no_ means
force them upon a user.

Hope this helps!
-Paul

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