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Canonical Targets Ubuntu Privacy Critic
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.'"
...calling this fair use. Google your legal jargon before making an a** of yourself, chucklehead. ...the seemingly mathematically certain linux fanboy responses. These come in the form of an invariable insistence upon uprooting your entire work/play environment to switch to a different distro which will be chock full of its own warts (this is the voice of experience speaking). This being, by fanboy logic, the only reasonable solution to any problem. I wonder if anyone has submitted a proof on this yet? I've been working intimately with FOSS for almost fifteen years and this sort of 'solution' has always come across as boneheaded. Unfortunately, it always comes across, too. ...deriding a company for trying to find a way to feed their employees and their employees' families. We all know that Ubuntu has been unprofitable to date. If your only contribution to the larger discussion is to throw grenades and run then you're a very real detriment to the FOSS community. ...deriding a company for the occasional affront without acknowledging their contributions. Ubuntu has contributed significantly to the visibility of linux-based solutions through both marketing and refinement of the UI (it's not to my liking but they're trying hard, at least, to find some common ground).
Silly is you.