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Wow. This was seriously a bad move on Canonical's part. I really wonder if Canonical knew that the revenue was going to GNOME. I simply have trouble believin

• redthrowaway 16y ago
  As others have said, the Amazon referrals would compete directly with Ubuntu One, meaning they would lose money if they left it in place. Canonical still needs money to function, just like everyone else. Their offer was to either disable the Amazon links by default, driving people to use Ubuntu One, or to enable them by default and take a big cut. Not that unreasonable at all.
  • evgen 16y ago
    So, to paraphrase your argument using another recent example: "As others have said, the Amazon Kindle app browser redirect competes directly with Apple iBooks, meaning Apple would lose money if they left it in place. Apple still needs money to function, just like everybody else. Their updated terms are to either disable the browser redirect, driving people to use iBooks, or to enable in-app book purchases and take a 30% cut." I guess "unreasonable" is a somewhat flexible term in the community depending on the players involved...
    • sethwoodworth 16y ago
      That's not quite correct in this case, here's another example: "The Amazon Kindle app browser competes directly with Apple iBooks, meaning Apple would lose money if they left it in place. So Apple doesn't ship the Kindle app browser by default, but can easily be installed." Actually, it's easier than that. Banshee's store will be installed, you just have to enable it. So no, not the same thing.