Ubuntu's Mark Shuttleworth Wins Austria's Big Brother Award 116
sfcrazy writes "Austria's Big Brother Awards awarded the coveted Big Brother Award to Ubuntu's founder Mark Shuttleworth for Ubuntu Dash's privacy reducing online extensions to local searches."
From the article: "What’s bad here and raises question here is that despite repeated requests Canonical refused to make the tracking option opt-in. The feature is installed and enabled by default so the moment one install Ubuntu it starts sending info to Canonical servers until the user deliberately disables it."
Re:Freedom isn't free (Score:2, Informative)
Debian does it through voluntary donations.
20 years and going.
Re:Riiiiiight... (Score:2, Informative)
The price system in a free market allows people who may ordinarily hate each other to indirectly cooperate by acting in their own interest. FOSS is similar to a free market, with participants acting in their own interest but whose actions indirectly benefit everyone. This chaos of uncoordinated individuals is in fact where FOSS's strength comes from. It is an illusion that centrally-imposed control would lead to any kind of improvement and it may well dissuade FOSS developers from contributing if they feel they are being directed by someone else's interests.