Ideological differences when representing Ubuntu in events.

[Efrain Valles]

thank you all for your input on this, it really helps energize our
team I am sharing your thoughts in Spanish with the Ubuntu-ve team.
this is what Ubuntu is about.

On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 2:32 AM, Jan Claeys <lists at janc.be> wrote:
> 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"...  ;-)
>
>
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Efrain Valles
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