Canonical and Yahoo!
Jan. 27th, 2010 09:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
grimsnifferWhile drinking my morning coffee, I had this slap me in the face.
To sum up, because of a revenue deal between Canonical and Yahoo!, the default search engine in Firefox on the new K/Ubuntu Lucid Lynx will be Yahoo! instead of the traditional Google.
This, as mentioned in the email I linked to, is obviously easily changeable, but that's not really what makes me wrinkle my nose.
What DOES make me wrinkle my nose is the revenue deal itself.
I'm not a big fan of Yahoo!, to say the least. I've got quite a long internet memory, and I remember them randomly spying on emails during the September 11th extravaganza - I also remember Yahoo! buying egroups.com and basically deleting any group on it they didn't like... and yes, I remember the much more recent possible Microsoft deal. So, Yahoo! - you get no luck with MS so you go over to the other trench to see if there's some money to be made there instead?
Seriously. So far I've had no problem with Canonical being a commercial company, including closed source programs as default in their OS, and generally Macinotoshizing (yes, that's a word! :) ), my operating system. Mostly because all of those things were easily removed. This new development however (even though it can also be easily removed of course, as mentioned in the linked post - and kind-of obvious to anyone who's ever used a web browser) does kind of cross a line. I don't like Yahoo!, I don't like them being associated even in a remote manner with my OS... and the fact that I'm not paying a dime for my OS and thus not supporting Yahoo! in any way doesn't seem to make it any better.
So I'm seriously considering moving to greener pastures. Kubuntu's been fun so far though... What then? Back to my Slackware days? All the way back to my Debian days?... Maybe try Gentoo for once? Any ideas from my so-far-not-so-substantial reader-base? :)
To sum up, because of a revenue deal between Canonical and Yahoo!, the default search engine in Firefox on the new K/Ubuntu Lucid Lynx will be Yahoo! instead of the traditional Google.
This, as mentioned in the email I linked to, is obviously easily changeable, but that's not really what makes me wrinkle my nose.
What DOES make me wrinkle my nose is the revenue deal itself.
I'm not a big fan of Yahoo!, to say the least. I've got quite a long internet memory, and I remember them randomly spying on emails during the September 11th extravaganza - I also remember Yahoo! buying egroups.com and basically deleting any group on it they didn't like... and yes, I remember the much more recent possible Microsoft deal. So, Yahoo! - you get no luck with MS so you go over to the other trench to see if there's some money to be made there instead?
Seriously. So far I've had no problem with Canonical being a commercial company, including closed source programs as default in their OS, and generally Macinotoshizing (yes, that's a word! :) ), my operating system. Mostly because all of those things were easily removed. This new development however (even though it can also be easily removed of course, as mentioned in the linked post - and kind-of obvious to anyone who's ever used a web browser) does kind of cross a line. I don't like Yahoo!, I don't like them being associated even in a remote manner with my OS... and the fact that I'm not paying a dime for my OS and thus not supporting Yahoo! in any way doesn't seem to make it any better.
So I'm seriously considering moving to greener pastures. Kubuntu's been fun so far though... What then? Back to my Slackware days? All the way back to my Debian days?... Maybe try Gentoo for once? Any ideas from my so-far-not-so-substantial reader-base? :)
