Ubuntu Hour - Toronto

[Bob Jonkman]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> I do however promise NOT to show up to a Ubuntu event and point out all
> the things that are terribly wrong with Ubuntu. 

But would you promise to show up to an Ubuntu event and NOT point out
all the things terribly wrong with Ubuntu?

--Bob, who promises to show up to an Ubuntu event and point out all the
things NOT terribly wrong with Ubuntu...

(actually, Ubuntu Hours ARE a great place to show up and point out all
the things terribly wrong with Ubuntu. And then we hold an Ubuntu Global
Jam to fix those things. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGlobalJam )


On 13-12-06 10:43 AM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 06:08:41PM -0500, Aruna Hewapathirane wrote:
>> Randy,
>>
>> Here are some links that shed some light on the privacy issues. What scared
>> me the most was the first link towards the bottom where they do have access
>> to your credit card info and other sensitive info.
>>
>> http://askubuntu.com/questions/42234/how-much-do-canonical-track-ubuntu-one-users-behaviour
>>
>> http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/12/richard-stallman-calls-ubuntu-spyware-because-it-tracks-searches/
>>
>> http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/ubuntu-spyware-what-to-do
>>
>> Do keep an open mind though, Canonical has formed a partnership with Amazon
>> that generates revenue for them which is a good thing that allows them to
>> keep supporting FOSS that being said it should not be at the price of
>> losing ones identity is all am saying ?
> 
> Debian manages to maintain a distribution without the need to do such
> things to raise funds.  Ubuntu even benefits from lots of Debian's work,
> yet Ubuntu thinks it needs to raise money through awful deals like that?
> 
> I do however promise NOT to show up to a Ubuntu event and point out all
> the things that are terribly wrong with Ubuntu. :)
> 

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