Ubuntu currently uses Rhythmbox as a music player. Ubuntu added an integrated music store (https://one.ubuntu.com/music/ https://one.ubuntu.com/music/) to Rhyth

Ubuntu currently uses Rhythmbox as a music player. Ubuntu added an integrated music store (https://one.ubuntu.com/music/ https://one.ubuntu.com/music/) to Rhythmbox that is part of a service called Ubuntu One. Revenue from this is part of what funds Canonical. Ubuntu has decided to use Banshee for the official music player instead of Rhythmbox. Banshee already has Amazon mp3 purchases integrated into the application. Purchases through Banshee use the project's own referral link. Banshee gives this money to the GNOME Foundation which is a nonprofit that coordinates GNOME development. Ubuntu is going to use Banshee but they don't want it displacing Ubuntu One. They gave the Banshee project two choices. Either a) Disable Amazon store by default, and if switched on by users it will still use the Banshee referral link where they get %100 of the funds or b) Leave the Amazon store enabled by default, but use a Canonical referral link that gives %15 percent to the Banshee project. This probably isn't that controversial but I thought it might be worth discussing as it relates to the Apple marketplace restrictions.