I'd like to see the 100,000 volunteers for the Race Online 2012 campaign encouraged to download and try Ubuntu so they are at least aware of it and can explain if anyone asks them. They'd also need to be told where to go for tutorials and assistance with Ubuntu.
Regards, Michael Devenish On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 4:50 PM, Alan Bell < [email protected]> wrote: > On 18/05/11 13:05, Paul Sutton wrote: > >> oh and people have full time jobs, so we need to do this when we have >> time and between other activities.# >> > yeah, but some people have a full time job for which more Free Software in > the UK would be a strategic benefit. I really want more people to be working > as individuals or small (or large) businesses providing consultancy and > support for Ubuntu and Free software in general. > > perhaps one of the reasons that MS have jumped on this is because they >> can, they have the discs, have the books, have the support and can >> afford the infrastructure. The OSS community can't so we lose out and >> will continue to do so. did canonical offer to do anything on this. >> >> ok, a few points here. You may have missed the fact that *THEY ARE > SHIPPING UBUNTU* this is a win. Yes they are in theory offering Windows as > well (with strings attached) but lets not lose sight of the important bit > here. > Proprietary companies do flood the charitable sector with their leftover > dross at knockdown prices. They do this because it costs them nothing > (incremental cost of production of software is zero) and they get joint > press releases that they can wave about and call Corporate Social > Responsibility. There is probably some tax writeoff involved too somewhere, > but I can't be bothered to find it. This bunch have talked to Canonical > (don't know who in Canonical) but it isn't being done with Canonical > support. > > Alan. > > > -- > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ >
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