[Nottingham] Ubuntu + Amazon

[Martin]

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On 11/12/12 18:46, Jason Irwin wrote:
> On 11/12/12 17:42, Martin wrote:
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>> OUCH! What is that Amazon connection doing there, prominently 
>> placed?...
> Well, there's been a few bugs raised about it and quite a lot of 
> recent chat about it.
> 
> Some reading: 
> http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/ubuntu-spyware-what-to-do 
> http://www.jonobacon.org/2012/12/07/on-richard-stallman-and-ubuntu/
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http://www.jonobacon.org/2012/12/10/on-being-childish-an-apology/
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> But already opted-in and sending your file searches to back to 
> mother? (Which MS do too, I believe.)  Really?  Canoncial make
> much of how they anonymise the data and Amazon don't know who you
> are. Well there's a few problems with that:
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Summarised on:

Ubuntu Community Manager apologises to Stallman
http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Ubuntu-Community-Manager-apologises-to-Stallman-1765674.html


To my view, good responses from rms and Jono.

Suspiciously a non-response from Canonical...

I fully agree with their money-spinning but not when losing trust and
freedom for the users and community.


All just my lowly personal view,
Martin


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