The founder of the Free Software Foundation has a problem, and it is not the latest version of Windows. No, Richard Stallman is not satisfied with Ubuntu, at the point to discourage Linux users to choose this distribution.
What is wrong with Ubuntu?
According to Stallman, Ubuntu is guilty of indiscretion of its users by incorporating spyware, which according to him, collects search queries and sends them to Amazon. For those that don’t know, this “spyware” is the new Amazon search feature.
Canonical transmits this to search data to Amazon, but anonymously. Unfortunately though it is not enough for Stallman for who Canonical has no more right than Amazon to collect personal data. So for the founder of the FSF (Free Software Foundation), the penalty is excommunication:
If you, like, recommend or distribute GNU / Linux, please remove Ubuntu from the distributions you recommend or distribute [...] Do not install or do not recommend Ubuntu. Instead, tell people to avoid Ubuntu for spying.
Source – FSF blog post
Personally I think this point of view is a little strong. What do you guys think? Please let us know in the comment section or come to our forums for a chat.
About Kevin François Bile Ebelle
Kevin Francois is a student of Medicine in Cameroon. He is a geek, and is passionate about everything related directly or indirectly to Opensource. You can find him on Google+.
