It sounds like João is asking two questions, the second of which is
whether the Lubuntu Team thinks it's OK for *him* to accept money for
supporting Lubuntu among small business clients.
But the replies here seem to be mostly addressing only his first
question, about financial support of the Lubuntu Project -- especially
about soliciting a corporate sponsor.
On 1/5/2014 7:51 PM, Jackson Doak wrote:
Yeah. I've been contributing to lubuntu for a bit over a year now
On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 11:46 AM, Pin Portal <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Nice, are you from Lubuntu Team, Jackson? I say: the people that
help creating the system?
Thank you!!!
Best Regards,
João.
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From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 11:37:25 +1100
Subject: Re: Migrate many micro and small enterprises to Lubuntu
in Brazil
To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>;
[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>
We're a Free Software project, so we won't charge. But a way for
people to donate money or hardware instead of time would be useful
On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Pin Portal <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I didnt understand, How support adding a donate button? Like
''Hey company, I will support you, but with you wanna pay for
my support, okay. If you dont wanna pay for my support, no
problem. I do it for free''
What you said is like this thing that I said?
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From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 11:21:40 +1100
Subject: Re: Migrate many micro and small enterprises to
Lubuntu in Brazil
To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
CC: [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>
I would support adding a donate button, especially since our
head developer doesn't have much time to help any more
On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Pin Portal <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hello, my name is João, Im from Brazil, I like and use
Lubuntu.
I know that in April, 2014 Microsoft will stop providing
updates and support for Windows XP users, so I decided to
help many micro and small enterprises (like small
businesses, for example: bakeries, restaurants, schools,
small offices,...) in Brazil to change to another system
and try not download ilegal windows 7 or windows 8 and try
not buy a new computer with better CPU and GPU, so Im
trying to convince many small businesses companies to
migrate to Lubuntu (because it will have 5 years support
in 14.04 LTS and of course it is free).
But in the other hand, many people are asking me if the
system is reliable, who is paying it (because if nobody
pays, you have to receive money to continue the system).
I didnt know what to answer and it made me think about it:
*Why doesnt Lubuntu do the same thing that Kubuntu made in
the past and look for a company that sponsors
(financially) the system? Like Kubuntu is supported
financially by Blue Systems
*(http://www.kubuntu.org/news/kubuntu-to-be-sponsored-by-blue-systems)
Other thing that I wanna know about Lubuntu Team: Many
small companies have shown interest in migrating to
Lubuntu, but they asked me if I could support them,
providing support if they had some doubts using the system
in the future, I agreed with them, but there are much more
companies that me (alone) can support, so I asked them if
they would pay for this support (like U$S10~U$S15 per
company per 10 computers by month) because with this money
I could contract more brazilian employees to help me
supporting them, they agreed with it.
*But I wanna know if Lubuntu Team thinks that it is wrong
by myself to ''get money'' supporting Lubuntu company
users in Brazil?* (Because the system is free, I would
only get money for the support, because we have energy
tax, potencial employees to pay and others costs) Is it
wrong to get money with Lubuntu support or Lubuntu Team
doesnt see problem with that? (Im asking it, because I
respect so much all people that made Lubuntu and make it
until today :D )
*Please*, I dont like so much to use list.ubuntu.com
<http://list.ubuntu.com>, because I dont understand so
much the interface, so PLEASE if one of you (or many of
you) wanna answer this message, send your answer to my email:
*[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>* my name
is João, just put ''Lubuntu'' title on the email message
to I know that it is an answer for my original message.
Thank you!
Best Regards,
João.
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