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Ubuntu Community Manager: RMS's Post Seems a Bit Childish To Me

Posted by samzenpus on from the war-or-words dept.

spacenet writes "As a response to RMS speaking out against Ubuntu about its privacy-violating integrated Amazon search results, which he considers to be spyware, Ubuntu Community Manager Jono Bacon has addressed RMS's statements. In his reply, Jono claims that Stallman's views on privacy do not align with Canonical's, that some of his statements are worded in order to 'generate fear, uncertainty, and doubt about Ubuntu' and that 'it just seems a bit childish to me.' The comments on the post itself are well worth a read."

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  1. Re:Does Amazon pay Canonical for this? by spacenet · · Score: 5, Informative

    All the search results open an Amazon webpage with Canonical's Amazon Affiliate Code, which adds a tracking cookie to your session and makes Canonical get back an undisclosed percentage of all your Amazon purchases, as long as that cookie stays there.

  2. Re:Does Amazon pay Canonical for this? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Informative

    you say "undisclosed" as if it was something being kept secret from you. The rates are here https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/associates/join/landing/referralfees.html it is a sliding scale with some other complications like different categories of products getting different rates. They will get a mix of commissions, generally between 5 and 10% and Canonical won't know until the reports come in from Amazon what the exact percentages are going to be.

  3. Re:Interesting.... by blind+biker · · Score: 5, Informative

    What another good linux distro?

    When Ubuntu decided to poop on their users with Unity, there was an exodus of biblical proportions to Linux Mint. That's why Mint is now the #1 distro.

    And thanks to Ubuntu's newest decisions, the Mint userbase is destined to grow even further.

    --
    "The agriculture ministry is not in charge of Gundam" - Japanese ministry official.
  4. Re:Nothing wrong with him by Forty+Two+Tenfold · · Score: 3, Informative

    No, I'm not.

    --
    Upward mobility is a slippery slope - the higher you climb the more you show your ass.
  5. Re:Nothing wrong with him by TrueSatan · · Score: 4, Informative

    You might consider Trisquel...it is FSF endorsed as a distribution that meets its guidelines: https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html Trisquel is akin to a Ubuntu with the non-free elements removed so it shouldn't be too much of a culture shock for you should you opt to use it. Further distributions with FSF approval are on the following link as is the link to obtain Trisquel: https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html

  6. Re:Interesting.... by seyyah · · Score: 3, Informative

    Looks like they both might have been doing it: Linux Mint Diverting Banshee Revenue.