Someone Tries to Sell Ubuntu GNOME Linux OS on Craigslist for $30

[Narcis Garcia]

I've made hunderds of Ubuntu/Lubuntu/UbuntuGnome installations
professionally, but I've never sold the software itself.

The problem I see in the ad is the phrase, because it seems Ubuntu can
be sold itself.


El 22/06/15 a les 08:31, Andrés Muñiz Piniella ha escrit:
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> El 22 de junio de 2015 07:18:30 GMT+01:00, Ali/amjjawad <amjjawad at gnome.org> escribió:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 3:42 PM, Andres <a75576 at alumni.tecnun.es>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> El Mon, 22-06-2015 a las 10:35 +0530, Satyajit Sahoo escribió:
>>>> But isn't it completely legal?
>>>
>>> Not only legal as far as I know ethical according to the fsf as  Free
>>> software is Free as in freedom and not price (not free beer).
>>>
>>>
>> http://www.ubuntu.com/about/about-ubuntu/licensing
>>
>>
>>> This person could actually be doing a public service? What if your
>>> download speeds are too low or too expensive?
>>>
>>>
>> For nearly a year, I've been converting people to GNU/Linux left and
>> right
>> and I did that 'not' for free, but for money. However, before I do
>> anything, I have informed the user/client that I'm charging for the
>> service, NOT the software itself. Usually, my services were involving
>> much
>> more of just installation. I had to do other things beside
>> installation.
>>
>> All that led me to think about it deeply .. why not expand that and
>> make my
>> living instead of spending my entire life updating my CV and beg for a
>> job?
>>
>> So, Kibo was born:
>> http://kibo.computer/
>>
>> And, I just got my first client the other day. I managed to convert the
>> lady from Windows 7 that couldn't even boot in to Xubuntu 14.04 LTS and
>> all
>> that happened ONLINE .. I did not touch anything .. I was giving
>> instructions and she (the user) was doing it herself.
>>
>> My charges where for my time + efforts, NOT the software itself.
>>
>>
>>
>>> It is more likely that someone is trying to make a quick buck.
>> Hopefully
>>> not someone distributing a dodgy copy with malware. Then again, when
>> was
>>> the last time normal people do the checksums?
>>>
>>> Some years ago someone was  selling CDs of ubuntu in amazon or ebay.
>>> Since canonical stopped providing CDs they were actually providing a
>>> service.
>>>
>>
>> The reason I asked someone (thanks To Keith) to contact that person, is
>> to
>> find out what is going on? if you go back to my original email, I
>> didn't
>> say anything :) I am not even upset, but so curious to understand what
>> is
>> going on :) so, let's hold our horses and wait for Keith ;)
>>
>>
>>>
>>> And wow. Softpedia looks like a horrible website.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> That's your own personal opinion. I'd ask you nicely and politely not
>> to
>> get into this kind of topics here :)
>>
>>
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>>
>> Thank you for your reply :)
>>
>> All what we need to do now is wait for Keith's feedback :)
> 
> 
> All valid points. I am sorry if the tone sounded horrible.
>