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GNU project creator calls Ubuntu a spyware, accuses it of tracking searches
The free software foundation (FSF) leader Richard Stallman has slammed Ubuntu as spyware. The GNU project creator is furious over the new feature of Ubuntu 12.10 dash that shows results from Amazon in addition to the results local to a computer. He calls it as a breach in user privacy, a fundamental that free and open source software should strictly adhere to. Though this feature of Ubuntu dash has been criticized by lot of people but words coming from a person like Richard Stallman are bound to get attention.
Here is an excerpt from what... [More]
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Ubuntu Spyware controversy- Now Ubuntu Community Manager apologizes to stallman
After calling Richard Stallman's stand on Ubuntu as childish, Jono bacon, the Ubuntu community manager has issued an apology for what he said in his personal blog post. Here is what he says in his new blog post titled On Being Childish; An Apology :
As such, Richard, I apologize whole-heartedly to referring to your position in your post as ‘childish‘ and I continue to have great respect for the work you do to encourage and grow software freedom around the world. This came after an attacking response by Jono a few days earlier where he... [More]
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