Migrate many micro and small enterprises to Lubuntu in Brazil

[Jackson Doak]

We've discussed this further, but he wasn't replying to the mailing list.


On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 12:15 PM, John Hupp <lubuntu at prpcompany.com> wrote:

>  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> 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
>> 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; 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> 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
>> 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
>> CC: 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> 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, 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 <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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