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If apt printing out a small message about Ubuntu Pro, or some short commercial about Ubuntu Pro or Canonical's cloud offerings/whatever show up in motd, I think
by jabl 4y ago
If apt printing out a small message about Ubuntu Pro, or some short commercial about Ubuntu Pro or Canonical's cloud offerings/whatever show up in motd, I think that's a small price to pay if that ensures the financial wellbeing of Canonical and thus a sustainable future for Ubuntu.
Arguably the Amazon search thing Canonical had in Unity some years ago was sleazy, but the above isn't AFAIU doing any data mining on users or such.
- noobermin 4y agoI think this is a reasonable perspective. Perhaps part of the paranoia (beyond FOSS kids' usual neuroses) was the Amazon search debacle, and thus this fits a pre-existing narrative about Canonical being a scummy corporation or whatever. If the events were reversed--or rather, the Amazon search never happened--the extreme fringe of FOSS users would be more easier to ignore.