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| Authored by: BJ on Sunday, March 24 2013 @ 03:52 PM EDT |
Stallman is right indeed.
The person who should be in the spotlight of controverse
over this shouldn't be Richard Stallman.
It should be Mark Shuttleworth, much dictator, little
benevolence.
bjd
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| Authored by: luvr on Sunday, March 24 2013 @ 05:34 PM EDT |
“I can simply turn it off or remove it entirely when I
install Ubuntu for someone, but if they install it themselves later, they might
not know about the search info being sent or how to disable
it.”
While I fully agree to what you're saying, some
users do like Ubuntu Unity, and prefer it to any other desktop. If they ask you
specifically to install it for them, then that's their choice—choice of
desktop is not a matter of “right” or
“wrong”, but rather simply personal choice.
Anyway, if
you really want to ensure that they won't get bitten by the spying lens, I would
suggest you remove it, and pin it with a negative priority; I
don't remember how exactly you would do that, but it's how I prevented Mono to
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| Authored by: designerfx on Monday, March 25 2013 @ 11:23 AM EDT |
mint has proprietary hooks. So I suppose yes if someone wants
something that "just works" without somehow being asked to
accept amazon tracking, it is better. It's still not entirely
f/oss, though.
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