Ubuntu doesn't charge anything at all, but for customs reference, each CD is declared at .26 Euro for shipping reference by Canonical Ltd.
Canonical Ltd. will ship the CDs at no charge, but the customs thing is totally up to the receiver. It is explicitly indicated in the "shipit" website. And yes, burning the CDs and giving them away is totally allowable with Ubuntu. Free of Charge, just like most linux distros. Share the spirit! Jerome On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 07:00:18 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Uhm, waitaminute, how much is Ubuntu charging for several dozen CDs, then > customs "charging" for their release? Not to mention the aggravation of the > latter. I bet if you added the cost of a CD-R and the cost of shipping a > single CD, that'd be cheaper, after maybe the 10th burn, than an order of > 10 from Ubuntu. > > Speaking of customs, you gotta understand that *any* item shipped in > quantity will look like a commercial importation. For the customs > inspectors, the "free beer" side of Ubuntu is irrelevant. Earlier posts in > this thread have mentioned that. Besides, careful about wishing for > "flexibility" in the handling of large quantities of, e.g., Ubuntu CDs. I > betcha importers would jump at any flexibility that customs displays. > > As to shelling out money for blank disks, you don't have to do that -- you > can ask those who'd like a copy to provide their own. Isn't that what PLUG > and other LUGs do at cookfests? > > I know that the FreeBSD project requests you to order a CD from them, > because they make a small amount of money from CD sales. That's really the > only reason I can think of for ordering free software CDs in quantity. But > then I *would* like to hear other reasons. > > Mabuhay. > -- Cheers! Jerome Gotangco Lok'tar Ogar! http://loktarogar.blogspot.com -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
