Cuba adopts Linux

[Paul W. Frields]

On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 12:56:53AM +0100, Mario Torre wrote:
>  Il giorno gio, 12/02/2009 alle 09.50 -0600, Neville A. Cross ha
> scritto:
> 
> > >From technical point of view they may use Fedora with xfce for
> > computers with few resources. But I think the bigger issue is Cuba as
> > a embargoed destination. I won't emit any opinion on this matter as it
> > is a Political issue. Distros based on USA won't send any material to
> > Cuba.
> > 
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal/Export
> > 
> > But I am happy that they are taking steps for FOSS.
> > 
> > Best regards.
>  
> Despite the political implications, Fedora is Free Software and is based
> on Free Software. As is, Fedora, or any other spin, should be exported
> and can reach any single person in the World. Limiting this, from my
> point of view, makes no different than just selling and promoting
> proprietary software.
> 
> I understand your concerns, but I don't agree with "Distros based on USA
> won't send any material to Cuba", if this turns out to be true, I will
> not believe in this "Free as in Freedom/Free Software Free Society"
> thingy anymore.
> 
> That's just my opinion, of course.

This is a good place for me to agree that everyone is entitled to
their opinions, but the fedora-marketing-list is not the place to
debate this particular issue.  Thanks for sharing your thoughts, and
let's stop this thread here please.

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