[Nottingham] Ubuntu + Amazon

[Martin]

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Folks,

I've just tried the various flavours of Ubuntu as included on this
month's Linux Format DVD and...


Unity ain't all that bad... Actually, it looks rather smooth and good
compared to the Microsoft "Metro" schizophrenia...

BUT...

OUCH! What is that Amazon connection doing there, prominently placed?...


I don't know about other's thoughts but I find that prominent
inclusion, and the threat of desktop advertising and tracking for
"Marketing purposes", to be far too uncomfortably creepy to be
acceptable. It's given me a very cold feeling of the first steps to
the "Dark Side"...

That one little icon has badly cooled my opinion of that base distro.
The emphasis is moved from being for the good of the users to instead
being for the benefit of commercial concerns. Hence, untrusted. :-(

I'm very happy for business to be made from FLOSS. It just has to be
clear and open and free from the all too often seen 'sharp practice'.
My boarder for one aspect of 'sharp practice' is strictly the display
area of the web browser window. Strictly there must be no "3rd
parties" wandering over the boundary of that viewing window!


Freedom is what we make it...

Cheers,
Martin


All merely my personal observations and opinion as always.

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