Flavor Review Request of UbuntuKylin

[Scott Kitterman]

On Monday, February 18, 2013 01:54:44 PM Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
> On 02/18/2013 01:48 PM, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
> > Hi! I'm not a member of the Tech Board but I hope you won't mind me
> > asking one question that I've had since the first I've heard of the
> > Ubuntu Kylin project. How does this differ from Ubuntu Chinese
> > Edition? (Although I guess the fact that I'm having trouble finding an
> > official 12.10 release may indicate that the Canonical-sponsored
> > Ubuntu Chinese Edition is no longer being maintained.)
> 
> Hi Jeremy
> 
> Ubuntu Kylin is the successor to the Project Qin work that became the
> Ubuntu Chinese Edition.
> 
> The team behind Kylin are keen to extend Ubuntu to integrate Chinese
> social media, content streams, payment systems, and the like. We agreed
> to support this work and collaborate with the team, to ensure that the
> result can be supportable and installed by OEMs. If this works, we
> imagine government teams in other countries would want to do the same
> thing, and our role is to ensure that quality and consistency and
> security are robust across all flavours of the platform.

What is the relationship between the Chinese government and this project?  
Canonical can do whatever it wants in it's OEM space, but I don't think an 
official connection between the Ubuntu project and the Chinese government is in 
any way appropriate or consistent with Ubuntu values.

Scott K