The cost of Ubuntu's Success

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In the left corner we have an advertising company whose flagship product is closed source software, and in the right corner we have a software company whose flagship product is closed source software. Linux users, declare your tribal affinities!

True enough, I guess it is clear which tribal affinity I possess by that article, but at the same time I do not make that choice without reason.

While both flagship products may be closed source I dont think it is very fair to compare the two company's on that basis alone.

Nothing to see here. Linux guy bitching that yahoo paid more than google to be the default search engine of Ubuntu.

Also, he mentioned Ubuntu-one, but doesn't point out that it's just a dropbox clone...

Flagged for inanity and inapplicability to HN

> Flagged for inanity and inapplicability to HN

Flagging is new downmodding.

"I never thought I'd see the day when a Linux distribution would be serving Microsoft search results by default, even though it is through the thinly veiled disguise of Yahoo."

Clearly you didn't read the article.

Yes I did. That's why I pointed out all that means is Yahoo is paying more than Google to be the search provider.

It seems wrong to write an article about Canonical (Ubuntu) and Microsoft without mentioning "Bug #1": https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1

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