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.
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