I don;t see this set up he is talking about as a "rival" to Ubuntu. It will not be competing for Ubuntu's business. it will simply be a self sustaining endeavor to Help promote Ubuntu and support it. It will take alot of requests and pressure off of Ubuntu by generating it's own swag.
On 10/1/07, Matthew East <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > On 27/09/2007, Yann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In a medium to far future we may ask canonical for the right to build > > another not-for-profit organisation with ubuntu in its name to separate > the > > money dedicated to this project from the money belonging directly to > > ubuntu-fr and ubuntu-de. If we don't get it, well, we may build a not > for > > profit without ubuntu in its name :( But with that kind of organisation, > > companies who want to support ubuntu but don't want to give the money to > > another company would finally have someone to give the money to. And > > depending on how much money we get, who knows how many things we could > do > > To bluntly summarise your suggestion, you are proposing to set up a > rival to the Ubuntu Foundation. As others on the thread have pointed > out, this is really disturbing. Not to mention the fact that you > simply say "we're going to do this", rather than showing a willingness > for discussion on this issue which not only affects the entire > Locoteam project, but affects the entire Ubuntu project. > > A more mature and collaborative way to proceed would have been to > voice your concerns about the existing Ubuntu Foundation and the setup > of Ubuntu fundraising with the Community Council, and participate in a > discussion which can identify and analyse the relevant issues. I > invite you to do so now. > > I'm copying this email to the Community Council, and for their benefit > the original thread can be found here: > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/loco-contacts/2007-September/001648.html > > -- > Matthew East > http://www.mdke.org > gnupg pub 1024D/0E6B06FF > > -- > loco-contacts mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts > -- Jason Sandlin https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AlabamaTeam https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-us-al
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