Re: Someone Tries to Sell Ubuntu GNOME Linux OS on Craigslist for $30

2015-06-23 Thread Xen
I had been wanting to say: If you are that enthusiast about it, by all means go ahead by now ;-). It might come to an interesting conversation and it is a courageous thing to do nonetheless. After all, this person is apparently a Gnome Ubuntu user and you'd get your side of the story ;-). Well

Re: Someone Tries to Sell Ubuntu GNOME Linux OS on Craigslist for $30

2015-06-23 Thread Keith I Myers
Hello All, Sorry for being so quiet over the past 12 hours, busy day at the office. Based on everyone's feedback, I will hold off on making any contact for the time being. On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 3:52 AM, Tim wrote: > > > On 23/06/15 01:49, Erick Brunzell wrote: > > Hi Keith, I suggest we just

Re: Someone Tries to Sell Ubuntu GNOME Linux OS on Craigslist for $30

2015-06-23 Thread Patrik Bubák
they agree on what's easy to agree on. -------- Original Message Subject: Re: Someone Tries to Sell Ubuntu GNOME Linux OS on Craigslist for $30 Time (GMT): Jun 23 2015 07:59:04 From: dark...@fastmail.fm To: ubuntu-gnome@lists.ubuntu.com On 23/06/15 09:36, Andrés Muñiz Piniella wr

Re: Someone Tries to Sell Ubuntu GNOME Linux OS on Craigslist for $30

2015-06-23 Thread Tim
On 23/06/15 09:36, Andrés Muñiz Piniella wrote: > But while on the subject of legalities and such, is gnome going to be one of > the official trademarks ? Is that what the new Logo going to be for? > > http://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/intellectual-property-policy The full logo has

Re: Someone Tries to Sell Ubuntu GNOME Linux OS on Craigslist for $30

2015-06-23 Thread Tim
On 23/06/15 01:49, Erick Brunzell wrote: > Hi Keith, I suggest we just drop this. Please read below: +1, I really don't see the point in even contacting the seller. Just forget about it! -- Ubuntu-GNOME mailing list Ubuntu-GNOME@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://li

Re: Someone Tries to Sell Ubuntu GNOME Linux OS on Craigslist for $30

2015-06-22 Thread Andrés Muñiz Piniella
El 22 de junio de 2015 15:10:39 GMT+01:00, David Gonzalez escribió: >Seems a lot of people are getting riled up for nothing here. Keep calm, >and keep reporting bugs to further polish Ubuntu GNOME? ;) Geez... > 5 or so bug reports sent automatically in the last 2 days. Bug reporting seems too

Re: Someone Tries to Sell Ubuntu GNOME Linux OS on Craigslist for $30

2015-06-22 Thread Erick Brunzell
Hi Keith, I suggest we just drop this. Please read below: On 06/22/2015 08:46 AM, Keith I Myers wrote: Hello All, I will be reaching out to this person this afternoon to try to get his side of the story. We will all agree that the posting on CraigsList is extremely vague and leaves A LOT of ro

Re: Someone Tries to Sell Ubuntu GNOME Linux OS on Craigslist for $30

2015-06-22 Thread David Gonzalez
Seems a lot of people are getting riled up for nothing here. Keep calm, and keep reporting bugs to further polish Ubuntu GNOME? ;) Geez... Just to recap, citing Tim that left this: --- "While Ubuntu will not charge licence fees for this distribution, you might want to charge to print Ubuntu CD

Re: Someone Tries to Sell Ubuntu GNOME Linux OS on Craigslist for $30

2015-06-22 Thread Xen
Dude, Don't go through all this trouble? You have nothing better to do? Are you seriously going to go after every single 'offender' in your eyes that sells 'free' software? Of course the ones doing it should be the ones making money. Not other people trying to make a buck out of other people'

Re: Someone Tries to Sell Ubuntu GNOME Linux OS on Craigslist for $30

2015-06-22 Thread Satyajit Sahoo
There is no ethical issues with selling free software. Lots of companies distribute free software in CD or DVD. I think we're unnecessarily wasting time on this. Satyajit Sahoo UX Designer Behance Profile We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good

Re: Someone Tries to Sell Ubuntu GNOME Linux OS on Craigslist for $30

2015-06-22 Thread Xen
I don't think "doing it solely for your own good" contradicts doing something that might be of benefit to some others, as if you have to take the interests of those others into account before you start doing something. The highest good anyone can does for himself or herself is also the highes

Re: Someone Tries to Sell Ubuntu GNOME Linux OS on Craigslist for $30

2015-06-22 Thread Keith I Myers
Hello All, I will be reaching out to this person this afternoon to try to get his side of the story. We will all agree that the posting on CraigsList is extremely vague and leaves A LOT of room for speculation and the article on Softpedia covering the story was written in a way that it could incite

Re: Someone Tries to Sell Ubuntu GNOME Linux OS on Craigslist for $30

2015-06-22 Thread Tim
On 22/06/15 21:36, Andrés Muñiz Piniella wrote: > > El 22 de junio de 2015 10:35:58 GMT+01:00, Tim escribió: >> Why is everyone getting so worked up about this? > > Actually from reading this > > http://www.ubuntu.com/about/about-ubuntu/licensing its even stated on that page, and I quote "While

Re: Someone Tries to Sell Ubuntu GNOME Linux OS on Craigslist for $30

2015-06-22 Thread Andrés Muñiz Piniella
El 22 de junio de 2015 10:35:58 GMT+01:00, Tim escribió: >Why is everyone getting so worked up about this? Actually from reading this http://www.ubuntu.com/about/about-ubuntu/licensing And listening to the interview here http://linuxluddites.com/ogg/podcast-43-ogg/?utm_source=feedburner&utm

Re: Someone Tries to Sell Ubuntu GNOME Linux OS on Craigslist for $30

2015-06-22 Thread Tim
Why is everyone getting so worked up about this? Clearly softpedia is just click-baiting, otherwise it wouldnt even be news. The monkey that wrote the ad clearly doesn't have the intelligence to make any money. Surely any sane person (consumer) would take one look at that ad and ask wtf. I hardly

Re: Someone Tries to Sell Ubuntu GNOME Linux OS on Craigslist for $30

2015-06-22 Thread Patrik Bubák
"This Not Windows But It runs smooth. More Like Apple mac os x Type. Linux Operating System. Just Boot from Start Up Screen Or Desktop." - who the heck wrote this sentence? An elementary school drop out? I think you guys fail to see the point that this person might solely be doing it for thei

Re: Someone Tries to Sell Ubuntu GNOME Linux OS on Craigslist for $30

2015-06-22 Thread Julien Olivier
Hi, Le lundi 22 juin 2015 à 08:51 +0200, Narcis Garcia a écrit : > I've made hunderds of Ubuntu/Lubuntu/UbuntuGnome installations > professionally, but I've never sold the software itself. > > The problem I see in the ad is the phrase, because it seems Ubuntu can > be sold itself. > Actually it

Re: Someone Tries to Sell Ubuntu GNOME Linux OS on Craigslist for $30

2015-06-21 Thread Narcis Garcia
I've made hunderds of Ubuntu/Lubuntu/UbuntuGnome installations professionally, but I've never sold the software itself. The problem I see in the ad is the phrase, because it seems Ubuntu can be sold itself. El 22/06/15 a les 08:31, Andrés Muñiz Piniella ha escrit: > > > El 22 de junio de 2015

Re: Someone Tries to Sell Ubuntu GNOME Linux OS on Craigslist for $30

2015-06-21 Thread Andrés Muñiz Piniella
El 22 de junio de 2015 07:18:30 GMT+01:00, Ali/amjjawad escribió: >Hi, > >On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 3:42 PM, Andres >wrote: > >> El Mon, 22-06-2015 a las 10:35 +0530, Satyajit Sahoo escribió: >> > But isn't it completely legal? >> >> Not only legal as far as I know ethical according to the fsf a

Re: Someone Tries to Sell Ubuntu GNOME Linux OS on Craigslist for $30

2015-06-21 Thread Ali/amjjawad
Hi, On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 3:42 PM, Andres wrote: > El Mon, 22-06-2015 a las 10:35 +0530, Satyajit Sahoo escribió: > > But isn't it completely legal? > > Not only legal as far as I know ethical according to the fsf as Free > software is Free as in freedom and not price (not free beer). > > htt

Re: Someone Tries to Sell Ubuntu GNOME Linux OS on Craigslist for $30

2015-06-21 Thread Ali/amjjawad
Hi, Long time no see ;) On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 3:05 PM, Satyajit Sahoo wrote: > But isn't it completely legal? > > It might be a bit tricky :) http://www.ubuntu.com/about/about-ubuntu/licensing > Satyajit Sahoo > UX Designer > Behance Profile > > We

Re: Someone Tries to Sell Ubuntu GNOME Linux OS on Craigslist for $30

2015-06-21 Thread Andres
El Mon, 22-06-2015 a las 13:47 +1000, Ali/amjjawad escribió: > Here is the ad: > http://fayetteville.craigslist.org/sys/5040249435.html Reading the ad for me a "system" is a full computer. For $30 it is really cheap. Also this person could be giving a 1hr introduction to ubuntuGnome at the time o

Re: Someone Tries to Sell Ubuntu GNOME Linux OS on Craigslist for $30

2015-06-21 Thread Andres
El Mon, 22-06-2015 a las 10:35 +0530, Satyajit Sahoo escribió: > But isn't it completely legal? Not only legal as far as I know ethical according to the fsf as Free software is Free as in freedom and not price (not free beer). This person could actually be doing a public service? What if your do

Re: Someone Tries to Sell Ubuntu GNOME Linux OS on Craigslist for $30

2015-06-21 Thread Satyajit Sahoo
But isn't it completely legal? Satyajit Sahoo UX Designer Behance Profile We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh? — The Doctor, Season 5, Episode 13. On 22 June 2015 at 09:51, Ali/amjjawad wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 1:58 PM

Re: Someone Tries to Sell Ubuntu GNOME Linux OS on Craigslist for $30

2015-06-21 Thread Ali/amjjawad
On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 1:58 PM, Keith I Myers wrote: > Hello Ali, > Hello Keith :) Long time, no see ;) > This is disturbing and I will try to reach out to this person to make sure > that they know that this is wrong. It also happens that I will be up in > that area at the end of next week as

Re: Someone Tries to Sell Ubuntu GNOME Linux OS on Craigslist for $30

2015-06-21 Thread Keith I Myers
Hello Ali, This is disturbing and I will try to reach out to this person to make sure that they know that this is wrong. It also happens that I will be up in that area at the end of next week as well. On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 11:47 PM, Ali/amjjawad wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I found this tweet on