Canonical (does not) begin tracking Ubuntu Installations

[Fred A. Miller]

On 08/14/2010 06:45 AM, Paul Sladen wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Aug 2010, Fred A. Miller wrote:
>   
>> > On 08/13/2010 07:58 AM, Paul Sladen wrote:
>>     
>>> > > If an OEM is _determined_ to do something potentially undesirable
>>>       
>> > That's NOT the point. I'd rather it wasn't done at all.
>>     
> Then, either:
>
>  a. Don't buy a pre-installed machine from a vendor who has decided to ship
>     the 'canonical-census' package---and make it known that you took your
>     money elsewhere _because_ of that OEM's decision.
>
>  b. Buy the pre-installed machine and 'sudo apt-get remove canonical-census'
>     ---and make it known to the vendor that you were forced to remove their
>     pre-installed choice of packages because they were sub-optimal.
>
> You'll only likely to make a difference if you ultimately _tell_ the
> vendors.

Now that we know that initially, anyway, it will only be OEMs, it would
be a
safe assumption that the reason for this application is to determine
just how
many Linux USERS they will have from their pre-load. That is, how many
keep Ubuntu on it.

Fred