The cost of Ubuntu's Success

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Post by goplexian » Sat, Feb 13, 2010, 12:35 AM UTC

The cost of Ubuntu's Success
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Re: The cost of Ubuntu's Success

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Post by patio11 » Sat, Feb 13, 2010, 5:08 AM UTC

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!

Re: The cost of Ubuntu's Success

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Post by gte910h » Sat, Feb 13, 2010, 5:12 AM UTC

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

Re: The cost of Ubuntu's Success

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Post by nearestneighbor » Sat, Feb 13, 2010, 5:18 AM UTC

gte910h wrote: post #3

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.

Re: The cost of Ubuntu's Success

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Post by goplexian » Sat, Feb 13, 2010, 9:14 AM UTC

gte910h wrote: post #3

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

"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.

Re: The cost of Ubuntu's Success

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Post by goplexian » Sat, Feb 13, 2010, 9:53 AM UTC

patio11 wrote: post #2

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.

Re: The cost of Ubuntu's Success

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Post by danblick » Sat, Feb 13, 2010, 10:10 PM UTC

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

Re: The cost of Ubuntu's Success

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Post by gte910h » Mon, Feb 15, 2010, 2:58 AM UTC

goplexian wrote: post #5

gte910h wrote: post #3

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

"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.