Hello Vladimir, > > But in our country GPL is not legal without a > > representative of legal owner. Do you have any comment on this ?
Anton, Vladimir works for Canonical and looks after the Ubuntu OEM business in Russia. Regards Richard On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 00:43 +0400, Anton Shaleyev wrote: > Hello! > May be you know that the Russian Federation is a country with great > number of non-legal Microsoft Windows users. In nowadays Microsoft > with our government is searching for users without license. The first > have condemned the principal of public school in Altay (Ponosov). > This is a one of reasons why a lot of users (commercial and private) > choose Linux. But in our country GPL is not legal without a > representative of legal owner. > I think the Edubuntu is the excellent OS for Education, in the any way > better and more cheaply than Windows Vista. But without representative > of Canonical we cannot use it in our educational process. > Now Russian government is looking for the OS which will satisfied all > Russian education standards for High and Middle ( like USA K12) > education. > Today 3 legal candidates for this system: Microsoft, ALTLinux and > Mandriva. First and last have representatives in Russia. ALTLinux is > Russian firm. > Why Canonical is not interesting in the Russian governmental customer? > And how it is possible to eliminate license problems with GPL in Russia? > -- Richard Weideman +27 (83) 321-2233 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Education Programme Manager Canonical Ltd - Linux for Human Beings http://www.edubuntu.org http://www.ubuntu.com -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
