Canonical Targets Ubuntu Privacy Critic

Posted by Soulskill on Friday November 8, 2013 @01:51AM from the probably-should-have-thought-that-through-a-bit-more dept.

New submitter bkerensa writes "A member of Canonical's Legal Team recently sent a email to a critic of Ubuntu's privacy settings to insist he stop using the Ubuntu name and logo, even though it falls under 'fair use.' Micah Lee is the CTO of the Freedom of the Press Foundation and maintainer of the HTTPS Everywhere project. When Ubuntu began adding commercial results in its Dash search software, Lee wrote about the privacy concerns and created a site called Fix Ubuntu to show people how to turn it off. Canonical's legal department has now sent him a letter asking him to 'remove [the] Ubuntu word from you[r] domain name and Ubuntu logo from your website.'"

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Re:And the response is... by ifiwereasculptor · 2013-11-08 02:13 · Score: -1, Flamebait

Well, YMMV on what constitutes an appropriate response. Me, I'd just swap the original logo for something like this: https://twitter.com/voodooKobra/status/398602765405917185/photo/1