6 ms·
Would you rather that Ubuntu go out of business than try to make money through the Amazon feature? Do you use Ubuntu? If so, why do you still use it if you feel
by jfoster 13y ago
Would you rather that Ubuntu go out of business than try to make money through the Amazon feature? Do you use Ubuntu? If so, why do you still use it if you feel so strongly against it? If not, why do you care so much about this? I'm a very happy Ubuntu user of many years, and I'd like to see Canonical be a successful business.
Morally wrong would be if they were trying to hold my files for ransom, or produce buggy software to sell me upgrades. They're just making it more convenient for me to buy stuff if I want to. On the spectrum of things that are morally wrong, this is so far from being something to get really upset about.
- keithpeter 13y agoHow much money does Amazon pay Canonical per month for basically random meaningless search terms from an unsegmented user base? I'd really like to know. PS: I have used Ubuntu on desktop and I have made modest (OEM price of Windows 7) donations.
- jfoster 13y agoAmazon's standard affiliate rates range from 4% (less than 7 sales/month) to as high as 8.5% (3131+ sales/month). According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_(operating_system)#Installed_base http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_(operating_system)#Insta...) Ubuntu had ~20MM users as of 2011. Good estimates of conversion rate and average sale price would be tricky to come up with, but let's just pretend they're 0.1% and $50 respectively. That would see Canonical bringing in about $1MM annually from this feature.
- keithpeter 13y agoThanks for the interesting numbers. 20 million users but how many 1) Using Unity as opposed to another window manager AND 2) Using Ubuntu 13.04 or later and not the LTS AND 3) Not having opted out Suspect the 0.1% is nearer 0.01% but we shall see...
- girvo 13y agoI think you would be very surprised, but id like to know as well!