Op zondag 04-04-2010 om 17:35 uur [tijdzone -0430], schreef Efrain Valles: > I would like to salute everyone out there representing Ubuntu in > events around the globe. With this email, The Venezuelan Team seeks a > bit of council with regards the things we go through when we decide to > go out and promote Ubuntu in our country. We seek to share experiences > and possible solutions that you around the globe may have found when > facing similar situations. > > Since its beginnings, Ubuntu-ve has participated in the National > Congress of Free Software and many other events where we share with > sister projects of distributions and lugs. In recent years, the > Ubuntu-ve has been put in situations where we participate in events > and there is always a speaker or organizer of the event questioning > Ubuntu's commitment with software freedom. This is something that we > all know could lead to endless unfruitful conversations about ethics > and other aspects. It is a good thing that over the years Ubuntu as a > project has proved its solid commitment to Software Freedom and > Ubuntu-ve has tried hard to convey that in our Local participation. > > This year, The National Summit of Free Software considered leaving out > Ubuntu all together based on the differences between GNU project in > Venezuela and their opinion on Ubuntu as Free Software.
If they want to be FSF-pure they should exclude all distros except the ones listed at: http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html If people want to be pure about free software and still want to use Ubuntu or Debian, their is the package 'vrms' to report regularly on non-free packages they might have installed accidentally. And AFAIK vrms is even more restrictive than RMS about what's "free"... ;-) -- Jan Claeys -- loco-contacts mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts
