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What about Firefox which has shipped with Google search default since forever, which Google pays Mozilla for, which Google makes money on? Will you never use Firefox again?


Not the same thing. Firefox doesn't send my local searches to Google. What Ubuntu does is a privacy breach.


Hmm, that's a valid point. I just have the idea of Linux distributions as being completely free and non-profit oriented. Also I'm used to the OS having no ads by itself, only on webpages. Guess I overreacted.


You may wanna read up on what free software actually is. The free used by the FSF generally denotes that you have access to the source code and are free to modify and redistribute it.

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html


Ubuntu, Redhat, SuSE just to name three of the big distro's that have been part of commercial operations from the start...




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