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[Pomeroy Lab]

Ultumix is not a company but a distro made by USA Computer Tech Computer Rescue that is free for us to share with others. However due to the restrictions from Adobe no one can redistribute it without permission from Adobe so that is one draw back however I don't think people will care about this restriction because I know of people who redistribute it anyway and I'm not stopping them. 

As far as a Google group the only problem is that the SF.net forums work so well for us already and so many people use them that we don't want to break away. If there was a way to start a mailing list using SF.net we would do it. Can we?

Rogan Creswick <creswick at gmail.com> wrote: On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 10:23 PM, Pomeroy Lab
 wrote:
> We don't have a mailing list because no one that understands mailing lists
> will join our group or help us.

A google group would probably work well for you.  I manage one for my
soccer team and it's painless.  It's at least worth looking into --
there may be restrictions based on the commercial status of the
organization/company (Ultimix).

--Rogan

> Thats how a lot of things are for us. We are
> all people that were using Windows 3 - 4 years ago. I may have known about
> Linux in 2001 but I didn't give up Windows so easily. We are trying to pave
> the way for other Windows Users but so far the rest of the Linux community
> besides Richard Stallman, Linux Mint, and our members have rejected us and
> criticized our efforts. We really need help. We don't expect anyone to jump
> on our bandwagon to help us in our efforts because most only care about
> current Linux users or think that all Windows users should have to
> completely reprogram themselves to learn Gnome or something like that. We
> had a hard time learning GNU/Linux and thats why we are making it easier in
> a legal way. We don't want to disobey the laws like a lot of other people do
> that make distros with Microsoft's codecs and interfaces in them. We are
> making an original interface and just trying to help people. Who knows maybe
> this summer our distro will die out and no one will be using it. All I know
> is that it sounds stupid to expect Windows users to learn Ubuntu or another
> distro that they are not familiar with when Ultumix is just easy to learn.
>
>
> Jeme A Brelin  wrote:
>
> On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Pomeroy Lab wrote:
> > Ultumix GNU/Linux has been and always will be by previous Windows users
> > for current Windows users.
>
> It's always going to be for current Windows users? So you don't intend
> anyone to ever become a current Ultumix user? How are they expected to
> use Ultumix if they're Windows users?
>
> Shouldn't it be that your distribution is by previous Windows users for
> previous Windows users?
>
> I mean, you're essentially saying here that you don't want to convert
> anyone.
>
> J.
>
> PS. I'm pretty sure nobody here wants PLUG to be subscribed to a mailing
> list. If PLUG users want to be subscribed to your list, they can do it on
> their own.
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