On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 22:20, Jojo Paderes wrote: > The custom official told I need to pay some taxes for. The custom tax > dues for 10 Ubuntu cd was around 2,000 according to the custom > officials. I didn't bother anymore to "negotiate" with the official > and just left the packages at the Novaliches post office.
I don't know with you guys but I really feel that this practice has to be stopped. The CDs mentioned above will just rot now. It is such a waste. There are more people who could really benefit from them. Please stop requesting CDs from Canonical if you can't commit to getting them from the customs office. You do not need to pay. But you have to educate the customs officials about the CDs. There are a lot of things that you can do like write a letter to the chief of your local customs office to explain. Its either this or just ask Canonical to channel the CDs to PLUG or to their local representatives. The CDs are easy to mass produce but think that Canonical is sending CDs worldwide. Every penny counts. If we let this abuse go on then Ubuntu might die a premature death. Holden -- 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
