On 9/10/06, Tom M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are any efforts being made to specifically market to countries where > the BSA is starting to crack down, such as Malaysia?
That would be something that the Marketing team would have to work with the Malaysian LoCo team. > > I believe if adequate awareness of free alternatives were made that a > large number of Free Software adoptions could occur. > > Something tangentially related has Ubuntu or Canonical considered > promoting a free software CD for the proprietary platforms? Ie > something containing OpenOffice, Gimp, Scribus, Firefox, Thunderbird, > and other prominent cross platform Free Software? This would seem a > logical approach to help companies transition to Ubuntu who could not > full transition immediately but might be interested over the longer > term. The Ubuntu live cd contains some of this. Canonical also sponosors the OpenCD, which is exactly that. > > The approach I would take would be to offer the CD as part of a large > scale transition package, where a staged migration is planned - first > scan all computers for existing software that is used on proprietary > platforms. Determine what have adequate feature set equivalents in > the opensource world; and what can be migrated to WINE safely. Then > the contract could include adding of missing features to opensource > projects for equivanlency or possible improvements to WINE for > portability, or possibly migrating the few remaining proprietary > environments into virtualized environments so that the specific needed > programs can still be accessed but with reduced risk to the rest of > the environment. Interesting idea. This is something that is very specific to each deployment, rather than something we can do. Welcome, btw. Corey -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
