Dump Google?

Danny Piccirillo danny.piccirillo at ubuntu.com
Sat Sep 11 03:17:06 UTC 2010


On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 23:14, Martin Albisetti <beuno at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 11:58 PM, Jordan <jordanhewi at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dear Ubuntu Developers,
>>
>> I'm not sure if I'm the first person to suggest this, but lately
>> Google's reputation has diminished, especially with talk of them being
>> Big Brother (yes, I know what server my email's on).  Why not drop
>> Google and go for a more private search engine?
>>
>> I know of a few underdogs such as Startpage and Yauba (I know of one
>> more whose name I forgot...they have plans for an email system).
>> Probably they would be happy to form an alliance with Ubuntu.
>>
>> I'm thinking large-picture here.  Ubuntu's main attraction is it's
>> security and privacy (not requiring users to register, for instance).
>> With the technology news on Google and large search engines, I think we
>> should jump on the band wagon to avoid Google. What do you say?
>
> I don't think Ubuntu's main attraction is security and privacy.
> It's important to many of us on this list, but hardly the reason we've
> got millions of users.
>
>

We could do *everything* for as many users as possible. Or we could
work for as many users as we can while still standing by our
philosophies of free software and freedom for our users.




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