[ale] DRAT! - Ubuntu 11.04 end of life

[mike at trausch.us]

On 11/04/2012 12:42 AM, David Tomaschik wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 3:39 PM,mike at trausch.us  <mike at trausch.us>  wrote:
>> >On 11/03/2012 04:13 PM, David Tomaschik wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >>I'm inclined to move my laptop from Ubuntu to pure Debian next time I
>>> >>reinstall.  The "shopping lens" in Unity crossed a line for me (I
>>> >>don't use Unity, but I also don't want to support that kind of
>>> >>behavior.)
>> >
>> >
>> >The who-what?
>> >
>> >
>> >         --- Mike
> I thought it had made bigger news:http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/tag/shopping-lens
>

It's possible.

I pretty much skip over anything from Canonical these days.

Reading that confirms (to me, anyway) that this is an appropriate 
position to take.  IMHO, Canonical can be lumped in with the majority of 
proprietary software companies.

I started to be turned off by them when interacting with their 
developers and trying to help fix bugs for them.

It got worse when they started thinking that they know better than 
everybody else.

And ultimately, they're now willing to sell out their users, too?

Canonical is firmly in the "evil" category, as far as I'm concerned. 
How very sad and disappointing, I think.  They did very good things for 
"Linux on the Desktop" when they started out.  *shakes head*

	--- Mike

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