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

[Erick Brunzell]

Hi Keith, I suggest we just drop this. Please read below:

On 06/22/2015 08:46 AM, Keith I Myers wrote:
> 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.

We don't know what the person's limitations might be ........ maybe 
English is not his/her native language. Why stir the pot? Is he actually 
doing anyone any harm? Has anyone actually complained that they've been 
negatively impacted (aka; ripped off)?

I truly suggest we just drop this to avoid sounding like a bunch of kids 
fighting over who gets to use the sand box.

Lance

>
> 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.

Even then I see no real problem. I've created a vast number of live 
DVD's at no cost to the recipient, but I do accept donations to cover my 
out-of-pocket costs. Live USB's w/persistence are a different story. The 
cost of USB sticks varies greatly but $30 is about what I charge for a 
32GB live USB, again just to recover my out-of-pocket costs and a bit 
for my time.

>
> 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 
> <mailto: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 <mailto: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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