To be very clear, I am relaying their argument, in good faith. I do agree that it is mere speculation that we will see general ads in the terminal, and that is

To be very clear, I am relaying their argument, in good faith. I do agree that it is mere speculation that we will see general ads in the terminal, and that is just the annoying nerds of FOSS communities being their usual annoying selves. I am closer to your opinion on that. That said, what I read was clearly an ad, just a benign one[0]. May be we are talking about different things, but this is what I saw. I reiterate, I think this ad is rather benign, and people worrying this means Ubuntu will start selling general targeted text ads or whatever in terminal space is just a bit much. That Ubuntu Pro has a "free tier" doesn't really matter in that front. For example, I'd consider plastering notices about a heritage walk around your city where you'd may be ask for donations (using a local example in singapore) is still something I'd call "advertising." I'd call old classifieds in newspapers ads, ads need not only be for things you make money directly from or at all. Anyway, I'll stop nit-picking here. The point I want to make is this reminds me for example about freeware or shareware notices in DOS programs. Again, rather benign, and I am not that upset about it. That said, it's not hard to foresee how it would not have elicited the response it would have given the attitude in FOSS, and that itself is an unforced error on Canonical's part. [0] https://twitter.com/omgubuntu/status/1574759306544701443/photo/1 https://twitter.com/omgubuntu/status/1574759306544701443/pho...