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

[Keith I Myers]

Hello All,
I will be reaching out to this person this afternoon to try to get his side
of the story. We will all agree that the posting on CraigsList is extremely
vague and leaves A LOT of room for speculation and the article on Softpedia
covering the story was written in a way that it could incite anger, lets
not fall for it until we get both sides of the story. A journalist should
NEVER publish a one sided story without at least making an attempt to reach
out to the other party involved.  Lets not question this persons
intelligence or resort to insults.

If this person is actually charging users $30.00 to install Ubuntu Gnome on
their machine and make sure everything works, then this person is doing
nothing wrong and in many ways should be an inspiration to the community as
this person is helping to spread Ubuntu Gnome to his local area. I
personally would love to see such grass-root businesses spring up all over
the place to not only do the install but also provide support. If this is
the case, I will ask this person to re-write the CraigsList posting to be
much more clear and in a way that it respects the Ubuntu and Gnome
trademarks.

However if this person is simply downloading the ISO and burning it to a
DVD/Flash Drive then I will try my best to educate him about the ethical
issues of selling "free software". I would ask that he discontinue this and
if it does continue then we will need to decide our next steps.

I will try to reach out to this person after my morning meetings and report
back to the community with what happens.

On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 8:18 AM, Tim <darkxst at fastmail.fm> wrote:

>
>
> On 22/06/15 21:36, Andrés Muñiz Piniella wrote:
> >
> > El 22 de junio de 2015 10:35:58 GMT+01:00, Tim <darkxst at fastmail.fm>
> escribió:
> >> Why is everyone getting so worked up about this?
> >
> > Actually from reading  this
> >
> > http://www.ubuntu.com/about/about-ubuntu/licensing
> its even stated on that page, and I quote
> "While Ubuntu will not charge licence fees for this distribution, you
> might want to charge to print Ubuntu CDs, or create your own customised
> versions of Ubuntu which you sell, and should have the freedom to do so."
>
> Of course they have tightened up the trademark rules a bit since that was
> written, however it should still apply to unmodified images.
>
> >
> > And listening to the interview here
> >
> http://linuxluddites.com/ogg/podcast-43-ogg/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LinuxLudditesOgg+%28Linux+Luddites+%C2%BB+Ogg%29
> I don't have time to listen to random interviews, but really I don't see
> what all fuss is about. Softpedia are click-baiting and hyping things
> up. But what would I know, I'm only the co-founder and Technical lead of
> Ubuntu GNOME....
> >
> >
>
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