[CoLoCo] Ubuntu at Best Buy

[David Overcash]

Hey!  Better idea!

Let's go into Best Buys and when people look at it we can step in to
volunteer information, hand out pamphlets, etc.  Best buy allows reps from
all sorts of products into their stores(such as apple, hp, etc. to push
their brand), so we should be given fair chance at it as well.

While we obviously cannot hand out CDs in the store (stealing business on
premises), we can definitely explain the product and tell people the obvious
advantages of purchasing 60 days of support when trying Linux out for the
first time, and encourage them to give Ubuntu a try either by purchasing the
CD/Support or by download the CD themselves...  It's a fine boundary we
would have to walk, but definitely worth it!

-David

On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Jim Hutchinson <jim at ubuntu-rocks.org>
wrote:

>
>
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Neal McBurnett <neal at bcn.boulder.co.us>
> wrote:
>
>> In other news, Canonical is in on it:
>>
>>  http://blog.canonical.com/?p=18
>>
>>
>> http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080710-canonical-hopes-best-buy-ubuntu-will-spur-linux-adoption.html
>>
>> And with respect to the previous conversation, I've done some more
>> reading at
>>
>>  http://www.ubuntu.com/aboutus/trademarkpolicy
>>
>> and Canonical does use require licensing for commercial use of the
>> Ubuntu trademark, especially for "official" stuff.  But they also
>> encourage "remixes", etc.  I don't know where they draw the lines.
>
>
> I kind of suspected something like this. I didn't think just anyone could
> package up Ubuntu and sell it as Ubuntu without some sort of agreement with
> Canonical. Being mostly or all GPL, I'm sure someone could repackage it (a
> remix I guess) as XYZ Linux but calling it Ubuntu would seem to require
> something official and apparently it does. Good to know. If they let any
> yahoo sell Ubuntu and they do it poorly that reflects poorly on Canonical
> and Ubuntu.
>
> Now we all need to go into lots of Best Buy stores and ask lots of
> questions and ask for a demo. I suspect most of the employees don't even
> know what it is if they even know they sell it. If we create demand they
> will probably need to address that in some way. Better to force them to
> become educated than wait for unsuspecting buyers to get wrong information
> and blame it on the software rather than the inexperienced staff.
>
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