[ubuntu-my] Bringing Ubuntu and open source to Malaysians

[Hasan Bakar]

"This is why we say that free
software<http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html>is a matter of
freedom, not price." -- Richard M. Stallman
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-free.html




On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 9:49 AM, Nicholas Ng <nbliang at gmail.com> wrote:

> All,
>
> I seconded with Zarul.
>
> It's not that we against any activity by members that want to get
> profit from Ubuntu Linux. What we against are the activities that
> related to profit earning to UBUNTU-MY team. As the team is a
> COMMUNITY, which mean non-profit and community driven efforts.
>
> As I mentioned in the IRC last night, the team and all the members of
> ubuntu who have signed the CoC, we are abide by [1] Ubuntu Code of
> Conducts (CoC). Therefore we have to uphold the Ubuntu CoC and protect
> the community from being turned into business entity.
>
> [1] http://www.ubuntu.com/community/conduct
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Nicholas Ng
>
>
> 2009/3/24 zarul shahrin <zarulshahrin at gmail.com>:
> > Anyway just a note to avoid confusion later..
> >
> > I am not against anyone who is trying to set up a company that provides
> > services for open source products like Ubuntu. What I am against is using
> > the community as a personal "vehicle".
> >
> > 2009/3/24 Yusof Khalid - Genius IT Enterprise <fryshadow at gmail.com>
> >>
> >> Open source is free.. deep into that, the code is free.. I think the
> term
> >> to make a profit is not suitable, If we provide a service then that
> should
> >> come into some $$$ instead the software that we used.. Canonical itself
> >> selling product same as like BSD community, they sell t-shirt, cd,
> poster
> >> and etc.. using the brand (BSD, Ubuntu).
> >>
> >> As a community maybe we should not pay for a particular person instead
> put
> >> some $$ for activity, that should be nice :)
> >>
> >> $0.002
> >>
>
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