On 02/18/2013 04:10 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: > When you say "We" have a formal relationship with the Kylin team, who is > "We", > what is the nature of the relationship, and (because it appears to then be > relevant), what is this Kylin team?
'We' is Canonical in this context. The relationship is that we've agreed to contribute engineering support that we would previously put into the Chinese Edition, into joint work, which we'll call 'Ubuntu Kylin'. The Kylin team previously was working on their own distro, called Kylin. A Kylin is the lion you'll see outside many Chinese buildings, a symbol of luck and well-being. There is some precedent for this - you'll be aware of a number of Ubuntu derivatives that have government sponsorship of one form of another. > If this new Ubuntu flavor is approved, will it be allowed to be distributed > in > China without further modification that would compromise it's freeness? Yes. There would almost certainly be an OEM version which may include things like WPS, just as the OEM builds of Ubuntu often include codecs, Flash and other consumer-friendly modifications that are unlikely to gather the support of RMS :). Nevertheless, that makes them a more viable contender against Windows and other platforms that would otherwise be shipped. Mark -- technical-board mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/technical-board
