Ideological differences when representing Ubuntu in events.

[Jan Claeys]

Op zondag 04-04-2010 om 17:35 uur [tijdzone -0430], schreef Efrain
Valles:
> 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.

If they want to be FSF-pure they should exclude all distros except the
ones listed at: http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html

If people want to be pure about free software and still want to use
Ubuntu or Debian, their is the package 'vrms' to report regularly on
non-free packages they might have installed accidentally.  And AFAIK
vrms is even more restrictive than RMS about what's "free"...  ;-)


-- 
Jan Claeys