Comments on: Unified Communications for Ubuntu Server Edition: Opportunity Rings

By: Joe Panettieri

Joe Panettieri — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:11:25 +0000

JohnMc: Here is an official comment from a Unison spokesman:

“Unison is not currently offered in Texas, Virginia and Wisconsin, due to the litigation climate in these jurisdictions. Because Unison is a young, highly-innovative company and its free, sponsor-supported distribution model is an industry-changing concept, the company has taken this step in order to protect itself. However, we hope to offer the software in these states at a future date.

Further, Unison may not be used or sold in Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Libya, Sudan, Syria, and any other jurisdiction to which US companies are restricted from exporting software.”

By: Joe Panettieri

Joe Panettieri — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 03:16:56 +0000

I am mobile but will check in with Unison on Wed

By: JohnMc

JohnMc — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 23:44:10 +0000

Mr. Panettieri,

Say, can you ask your contact at Unison what is up with 3 States being prevented from having/accessing the software?

Not pointing at Unison. But if there is some State legal restriction then I need to put bugs in the ear of lawmakers here in Texas to get it changed.

Thanks!

By: Joe Panettieri

Joe Panettieri — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:59:54 +0000

Rurik: Sorry about my error. We look forward to hearing more about Unison in the days (and weeks…) ahead.

By: Rurik Bradbury

Rurik Bradbury — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:52:20 +0000

Hello Joe — one point of clarification. Ubuntu/Canonical is not a sponsor of Unison (in either the advertising or the ‘project sponsor’ sense). After we started the advertising sponsorship in December, there were concerns that it may be confused with a ‘project sponsorship’ (such as ‘Canonical, sponsor of Ubuntu’) so we discontinued the ad-sponsorship to avoid this confusion.

Unison Technologies and Canonical are still working together to promote SMB IT running on Linux — but just not in a ’sponsor’ relationship.

Rurik