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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
On 1/5/2014 7:51 PM, Jackson Doak wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Yeah. I've been contributing to lubuntu for a bit
over a year now</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 11:46 AM, Pin
Portal <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:pinportal@msn.com" target="_blank">pinportal@msn.com</a>></span>
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<div dir="ltr">Nice, are you from Lubuntu Team, Jackson? I
say: the people that help creating the system?
<div>Thank you!!!</div>
<div>Best Regards, </div>
<div>João.<br>
<br>
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<hr>From: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:noskcaj@ubuntu.com" target="_blank">noskcaj@ubuntu.com</a><br>
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 11:37:25 +1100
<div class="im"><br>
Subject: Re: Migrate many micro and small
enterprises to Lubuntu in Brazil<br>
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To: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:pinportal@msn.com" target="_blank">pinportal@msn.com</a>;
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com"
target="_blank">lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a>
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<div class="h5"><br>
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<div dir="ltr">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</div>
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<div>On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Pin
Portal <span dir="ltr"><<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:pinportal@msn.com"
target="_blank">pinportal@msn.com</a>></span>
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<div dir="ltr">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''
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<div>What you said is like this thing
that I said?<br>
<br>
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<hr>From: <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:noskcaj@ubuntu.com"
target="_blank">noskcaj@ubuntu.com</a><br>
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 11:21:40
+1100<br>
Subject: Re: Migrate many micro
and small enterprises to Lubuntu
in Brazil<br>
To: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:pinportal@msn.com"
target="_blank">pinportal@msn.com</a><br>
CC: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com"
target="_blank">lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br>
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<div dir="ltr">I would support
adding a donate button,
especially since our head
developer doesn't have much time
to help any more</div>
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<div>On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at
11:19 AM, Pin Portal <span
dir="ltr"><<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:pinportal@msn.com"
target="_blank">pinportal@msn.com</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Hello, my
name is João, Im from
Brazil, I like and use
Lubuntu.
<div>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).</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>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).</div>
<div>I didnt know what
to answer and it made
me think about it: </div>
<div><b>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 </b>(<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.kubuntu.org/news/kubuntu-to-be-sponsored-by-blue-systems"
style="font-size:12pt" target="_blank">http://www.kubuntu.org/news/kubuntu-to-be-sponsored-by-blue-systems</a>)</div>
<div><br>
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<div>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.</div>
<div><b>But I wanna know
if Lubuntu Team
thinks that it is
wrong by myself to
''get money''
supporting Lubuntu
company users in
Brazil?</b> (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 )</div>
<div><br>
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<div><br>
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<div><b>Please</b>, I
dont like so much to
use <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://list.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">list.ubuntu.com</a>,
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:</div>
<div><b><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:pinportal@msn.com" target="_blank">pinportal@msn.com</a></b>
my name is João,
just put ''Lubuntu''
title on the email
message to I know that
it is an answer for my
original message.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Thank you!</div>
<div>Best Regards, </div>
<div>João.</div>
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