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

Mon Jun 22 23:36:20 UTC 2015

El 22 de junio de 2015 15:10:39 GMT+01:00, David Gonzalez <david at thehumble.ninja> escribió:
>Seems a lot of people are getting riled up for nothing here. Keep calm,
>and keep reporting bugs to further polish Ubuntu GNOME? ;) Geez...
>

5 or so bug reports sent automatically in the last 2 days. Bug reporting seems too easy! ;)

>Just to recap, citing Tim that left this:
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>"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."
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Agreed! And what an awesome distro it is. I remember reading an Interview with stormy peters about how new gnome3 was going to be, unlike anything else! It is! Thank you for your hard work in making this available! I really did not want to use fedora or having the crazy hybrid of unity/gnome3 I had for some time.

But while on the subject of legalities and such, is gnome going to be one of the official trademarks  ? Is that what the new Logo going to be for?

http://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/intellectual-property-policy

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>---- On Mon, 22 Jun 2015 09:52:20 -0400
>Xen<mailing-list at bart.ahum.nl> wrote ---- 
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>  Dude,
> 
> Don't go through all this trouble? You have nothing better to do?
> 
>Are you seriously going to go after every single 'offender' in your
>eyes that sells 'free' software? Of course the ones doing it should be
>the ones making money. Not other people trying to make a buck out of
>other people's work. I understand that. The whole Softpedia article is
>a blowup. It's just funny. People get attracted to that story.
> 
>But it doesn't mean much, except that it inspired a kind of debate
>about how to make money on selling or converting or installing Ubuntu
>(Gnome), which I find interesting ;-).
> 
> Regards, and good luck.
> 
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> Keith I Myers schreef op 22-6-2015 om 15:46:
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>XQx_bUxNpAVXxN7jnKkTu7nF_-_cJA at mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> 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:
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> 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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> >
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