[ale] Canonical makes Apple look so good...

[Jim Kinney]

On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Michael B. Trausch <mike at trausch.us> wrote:

>
> What Canonical is doing is ethically wrong and is the level of crap I'd
> expect to see from a politician, not someone who claims to care about
> the free software ecosystem(s).

I think you hit the nail on the head. Cannonical is NOT about the free
software ecosystem. Cannonical is as much of a corporate leech as
Oracle.

They have always been that way.

SuSE used to distribute their distro with a closed-source installer.
Thus I quit even tinkering with their stuff. They saw the light,
opened the code and make themselves some serious geek cred hacking
video drivers for X. That was an (almost) excusable infraction.

But to change the affiliate code on software you get to use for free
so the developers get cut out of a few nickles to feed their
caffeine/music habits shows a serious (in my mind) lack of ethics.

mucho bad karma for Cannonical.

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James P. Kinney III
I would rather stumble along in freedom than walk effortlessly in chains.