Migrate many micro and small enterprises to Lubuntu in Brazil
John Hupp
lubuntu at prpcompany.com
Mon Jan 6 01:15:47 UTC 2014
It sounds like João is asking two questions, the second of which is
whether the Lubuntu Team thinks it's OK for *him* to accept money for
supporting Lubuntu among small business clients.
But the replies here seem to be mostly addressing only his first
question, about financial support of the Lubuntu Project -- especially
about soliciting a corporate sponsor.
On 1/5/2014 7:51 PM, Jackson Doak wrote:
> Yeah. I've been contributing to lubuntu for a bit over a year now
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 11:46 AM, Pin Portal <pinportal at msn.com
> <mailto:pinportal at msn.com>> wrote:
>
> Nice, are you from Lubuntu Team, Jackson? I say: the people that
> help creating the system?
> Thank you!!!
> Best Regards,
> João.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> From: noskcaj at ubuntu.com <mailto:noskcaj at ubuntu.com>
> Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 11:37:25 +1100
>
> Subject: Re: Migrate many micro and small enterprises to Lubuntu
> in Brazil
> To: pinportal at msn.com <mailto:pinportal at msn.com>;
> lubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> <mailto:lubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
>
>
> We're a Free Software project, so we won't charge. But a way for
> people to donate money or hardware instead of time would be useful
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Pin Portal <pinportal at msn.com
> <mailto:pinportal at msn.com>> wrote:
>
> I didnt understand, How support adding a donate button? Like
> ''Hey company, I will support you, but with you wanna pay for
> my support, okay. If you dont wanna pay for my support, no
> problem. I do it for free''
>
> What you said is like this thing that I said?
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> From: noskcaj at ubuntu.com <mailto:noskcaj at ubuntu.com>
> Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 11:21:40 +1100
> Subject: Re: Migrate many micro and small enterprises to
> Lubuntu in Brazil
> To: pinportal at msn.com <mailto:pinportal at msn.com>
> CC: lubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> <mailto:lubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
>
> I would support adding a donate button, especially since our
> head developer doesn't have much time to help any more
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Pin Portal <pinportal at msn.com
> <mailto:pinportal at msn.com>> wrote:
>
> Hello, my name is João, Im from Brazil, I like and use
> Lubuntu.
> I know that in April, 2014 Microsoft will stop providing
> updates and support for Windows XP users, so I decided to
> help many micro and small enterprises (like small
> businesses, for example: bakeries, restaurants, schools,
> small offices,...) in Brazil to change to another system
> and try not download ilegal windows 7 or windows 8 and try
> not buy a new computer with better CPU and GPU, so Im
> trying to convince many small businesses companies to
> migrate to Lubuntu (because it will have 5 years support
> in 14.04 LTS and of course it is free).
>
> But in the other hand, many people are asking me if the
> system is reliable, who is paying it (because if nobody
> pays, you have to receive money to continue the system).
> I didnt know what to answer and it made me think about it:
> *Why doesnt Lubuntu do the same thing that Kubuntu made in
> the past and look for a company that sponsors
> (financially) the system? Like Kubuntu is supported
> financially by Blue Systems
> *(http://www.kubuntu.org/news/kubuntu-to-be-sponsored-by-blue-systems)
>
> Other thing that I wanna know about Lubuntu Team: Many
> small companies have shown interest in migrating to
> Lubuntu, but they asked me if I could support them,
> providing support if they had some doubts using the system
> in the future, I agreed with them, but there are much more
> companies that me (alone) can support, so I asked them if
> they would pay for this support (like U$S10~U$S15 per
> company per 10 computers by month) because with this money
> I could contract more brazilian employees to help me
> supporting them, they agreed with it.
> *But I wanna know if Lubuntu Team thinks that it is wrong
> by myself to ''get money'' supporting Lubuntu company
> users in Brazil?* (Because the system is free, I would
> only get money for the support, because we have energy
> tax, potencial employees to pay and others costs) Is it
> wrong to get money with Lubuntu support or Lubuntu Team
> doesnt see problem with that? (Im asking it, because I
> respect so much all people that made Lubuntu and make it
> until today :D )
>
>
> *Please*, I dont like so much to use list.ubuntu.com
> <http://list.ubuntu.com>, because I dont understand so
> much the interface, so PLEASE if one of you (or many of
> you) wanna answer this message, send your answer to my email:
> *pinportal at msn.com <mailto:pinportal at msn.com>* my name
> is João, just put ''Lubuntu'' title on the email message
> to I know that it is an answer for my original message.
>
> Thank you!
> Best Regards,
> João.
>
>
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