The google custom search - perhaps it went there by itself?

[Vincenzo Ciancia]

Il 26/07/2009 03:34, Jan Claeys ha scritto:
>> The custom search is quite annoying and intrusive.  I've resorted to
>> >  using the binary download.
>
> Eh, you know that you can add/remove whatever search engine you want,
> don't you?
>

Jan, did you read my e-mails? It is clear to everybody that 1) we can 
customize firefox and 2) this is an effect of it being open source.

My concerns are of a completely different nature. It seems to me that 
they are pushing a custom search making it look like a standard search 
page (even if it has an ubuntu logo). My mother (if I had not changed 
the start page for her) would certainly have been tricked into the 
thing. And wonder why on linux there are no maps or conversions. And I 
think that this is not acceptable in a free software distribution. At 
least, these are not the principles that led me to push ubuntu among 
people of all sort, and to help with bug reporting in my free time.

V.