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The cost of Ubuntu's Success
- patio11 17y agoIn the left corner we have an advertising company whose flagship product is closed source software, and in the right corner we have a software company whose flagship product is closed source software. Linux users, declare your tribal affinities!
- goplexian 17y agoTrue enough, I guess it is clear which tribal affinity I possess by that article, but at the same time I do not make that choice without reason. While both flagship products may be closed source I dont think it is very fair to compare the two company's on that basis alone.
- gte910h 17y agoNothing to see here. Linux guy bitching that yahoo paid more than google to be the default search engine of Ubuntu. Also, he mentioned Ubuntu-one, but doesn't point out that it's just a dropbox clone... Flagged for inanity and inapplicability to HN
- nearestneighbor 17y ago> Flagged for inanity and inapplicability to HN Flagging is new downmodding.
- goplexian 17y ago"I never thought I'd see the day when a Linux distribution would be serving Microsoft search results by default, even though it is through the thinly veiled disguise of Yahoo." Clearly you didn't read the article.
- gte910h 17y agoYes I did. That's why I pointed out all that means is Yahoo is paying more than Google to be the search provider.
- danblick 17y agoIt seems wrong to write an article about Canonical (Ubuntu) and Microsoft without mentioning "Bug #1": https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1