[Cialug] Canonical - Yahoo deal; thoughts?

[Nathan C. Smith]

Now that they are waving it around a little Microsoft money is going to be a big lure to a lot of Open Source projects.


From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of Matt Carter
Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 7:26 AM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Canonical - Yahoo deal; thoughts?

It just raises too many questions.. why would Canonical want any Bing-tainted money? What did Bing get in return?

You could start at the basic superstition level and just assume its a money deal.

Or you could go to the extreme and say Canonical is now in bed with Microsoft and sold its soul for the right price, allowing vital info to be gathered from its users and given to M$ to begin the Linux extermination.

It just doesn't have a good taste, that's all.

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From: Todd Walton <tdwalton at gmail.com<mailto:Todd%20Walton%20%3ctdwalton at gmail.com%3e>>
Reply-to: Central Iowa Linux Users Group <cialug at cialug.org>
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group <cialug at cialug.org<mailto:Central%20Iowa%20Linux%20Users%20Group%20%3ccialug at cialug.org%3e>>
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Canonical - Yahoo deal; thoughts?
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 06:26:05 -0600



On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 12:00 AM, Jeffrey Ollie <jeff at ocjtech.us<mailto:jeff at ocjtech.us>> wrote:

> If I was an Ubuntu user and I actually stuck with Ubuntu after such a

> stunt one of the first things that I would do would be to figure out

> how to change the defaults before even opening up Firefox or any other

> browser.

>

> Since I'm not an Ubuntu user it would be one more reason for me to

> stay away from Ubuntu.



Is it really that big a deal?



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Todd

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