Stallman On Unity Dash: Canonical Will Have To Give Users' Data To Governments 187
Giorgio Maone writes "Ubuntu developer and fellow Mozillian Benjamin Kerensa chatted with various people about the new Amazon Product Results in the Ubuntu 12.10 Unity Dash. Among them, Richard Stallman told him that this feature is bad because:
1. 'If Canonical gets this data, it will be forced to hand it over to various governments.'; 2. Amazon is bad. Concerned people can disable remote data retrieval for any lens and scopes or, more surgically, use sudo apt-get remove unity-lens-shopping."
Stallman (Score:1, Funny)
Stallman gave this speech, as all his speeches, from a secret underground cave bunker on the moon, the only place he's convinced no one can get him. His fears of advancement in space travel however have now caused him to announce his future plans to move his home to a commonly used metaphor, in the hopes that living inside an actual metaphor will present even more security.
Obligatory xkcd (Score:4, Funny)
http://xkcd.com/1095/ [xkcd.com]
Mod parent +1 funny.
Re:sad but true (Score:4, Funny)
"Stop worrying about the government, because corporations are already harvesting you and selling it to the government at a deep discount."
But, but I TRUST the Koch Brothers when they say Government Is Bad.
The Invisible Hand Of The Market will protect me.