Re: Boycott Ubuntu Spyware... no, better to buy Landscape.

In the workplace we subscribe to the Canonical Landscape solution for 
quite a few machines.  It is an opportunity for us to say thanks($) to 
Canonical, we also get support if needed.  5 years of support for 12.04 
is excellent too.

The UbuntuOne and Amazon bits are from my point of view trivial 
none-issues, avoidable if you want.

The improvements that Canonical has made or helped motivate over the 
last few years are enormous, it's never been easier to put Linux onto 
the desktop and to then maintain it.  e.g. for us to upgrade from 10.04 
to 12.04 involves a couple of mouse clicks in Landscape, done,  we never 
have to install OS/application security updates, they're automated.   I 
recommend supporting Canonical financially in any way you can, 
especially if you're using it in the workplace.

Rob

On 27/01/13 05:08 AM, Danyl Strype wrote:
> Kia ora koutou
>
> The writing's been on the wall for Ubuntu since they made Unity the
> default UI. I don't mind it myself, but that's because my main PC is
> the kind of tiny laptop for which it was designed, and perhaps because
> I voluntarily installed the "Netbook Remix" rather than having Unity
> foisted on me unawares. That decision annoyed a lot of loyal users.
>
> Then there was UbuntuOne, which broke the Ubuntu promise by including
> a proprietary server-side package, and which they bundled with the OS,
> giving people the reasonable expectation it was all free code:
> http://www.coactivate.org/projects/disintermedia/blog/2012/09/28/ubuntu-one-breaks-the-ubuntu-promise/
>
> The final nail for me is the bundling of the Amazon spyware in the
> standard distro.
> http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/ubuntu-spyware-what-to-do
>
> This is unforgivably Microsoftish. I'm removing Ubuntu from all my
> machines, and researching alternatives to recommend to anyone I've
> ever helped migrate to Ubuntu. At the moment I'm using Debian stable,
> which reminds me of Ubuntu circa 2009/10. Peppermint is nice if you
> want a cute, lightweight (LXDE) distro just for doing internet stuff.
> I've been offered help building a custom linux using Arch (watch this
> space).
>
> I will not even consider using or endorsing Ubuntu again until
> Canonical hands over control of the Ubuntu trademarks to the
> Foundation, and all nasty proprietary tie-ins and spyware are removed.
> There are many, many alternatives, let's use them. I'll be interested
> to see though, if resellers like ZaReason keep selling their gear with
> Ubuntu as the default OS.
>
> Ma te wā
> Strypey
>

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