Ubuntu Spyware: What to Do?

[Shadow]

On Sat, 08 Dec 2012 17:29:47 +0000, ~BD~ <~BD~@nomail.afraid.org>
wrote:

>One of the major advantages of free software is that the community
>protects users from malicious software. Now Ubuntu GNU/Linux has become
>a counterexample. What should we do?
>

>If you ever recommend or redistribute GNU/Linux, please remove Ubuntu
>from the distros you recommend or redistribute.

That's about all we can do. Just say Ubuntu is for dimwits and
real people install Debian.

(I still have Ubuntu 10.04 LTS installed(amongst others).
After that release, Ubuntu became a non-option).
[]'s
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[Craig]

On 12/08/2012 01:08 PM, Shadow wrote:
> On Sat, 08 Dec 2012 17:29:47 +0000, ~BD~ <~BD~@nomail.afraid.org>
> wrote:
>
>> One of the major advantages of free software is that the community
>> protects users from malicious software. Now Ubuntu GNU/Linux has become
>> a counterexample. What should we do?
>>
>
>> If you ever recommend or redistribute GNU/Linux, please remove Ubuntu
>> from the distros you recommend or redistribute.
>
> That's about all we can do. Just say Ubuntu is for dimwits and
> real people install Debian.
>
> (I still have Ubuntu 10.04 LTS installed(amongst others).
> After that release, Ubuntu became a non-option).

Yea, I'm biding my time. I have 12.04 LTS. I figure all of this will
come out in the wash well before April, 2017.

Fwiw, I don't buy that Canonical has gone to the dark side. They are
making some mistakes right now but, so what?

The world needs both its Stallmans and Shuttleworths.

--
-Craig