ad/spyware query

[Ioannis Vranos]

On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 4:33 AM, wes <davidson at ling.ohio-state.edu> wrote:
> hello all.
>
> i am currently a user of ubuntu 10.04 LTS.  in a matter of months that
> release will no longer be supported by canonical, and i am shopping
> around for another free-software operating system to use.
>
> i understand that recent changes to ubuntu conflate (by default) local
> and web searches performed with certain applications, and intersperse
> web results from amazon in their output.
>
> i find this massively disturbing. in my view, it is a flagrant
> violation of implict free-software principles (if not the explicit
> ones as well), and under no circumstances will i be using ubuntu in
> the future for that reason.
>
> furthermore, i am now highly suspicious of canonical's integrity as a
> distributer of free software.

Ubuntu 12.04 has not this search functionality. Also, it can be
disabled in Ubuntu 12.10.

However Ubuntu is too heavy for my taste.


> and so, regarding lubuntu, i have the following questions.
>
> 1. do current releases of lubuntu incorporate these changes as well?

As far as I know, web search results is a functionality of Unity only.


> 2. what are the lubuntu developer's attitudes on these changes?
>
> 3. who hosts lubuntu's repositories?

Except from the local mirrors, I think Canonical.

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