Stallman On Unity Dash: Canonical Will Have To Give Users' Data To Governments

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."

Re:sudo apt-get install shred

[kthreadd]

Then install debian.

Stallman's organization maintains a list of approved distributions [gnu.org].
Debian is not there, so he won't recommend it.

Re:who even uses ubuntu

[Neil_Brown]

Linux Mint is way more legitimate in every way... UBUNTU IS NOT RELEVANT

It may have changed — my last install of Mint was Helena — but is Mint not based on Ubuntu [distrowatch.com]?

For Mint, I'd have thought Ubuntu was very relevant indeed.

Re:Don't use Ubuntu

[Anonymous Coward]

Attribution: Emo Philips

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBKIyCbppfs

Re:Don't use Ubuntu

[s4m7]

Mint makes money through their default search engine redirect, or in other words, by selling your keyword searches. Which is exactly what Ubuntu is doing. They've just been doing it for longer.