Canonical fleeces the gnome foundation?

[Evan Huus]

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Patrick Goetz <pgoetz at mail.utexas.edu> wrote:
> I found this article to be extremely disturbing.  Surely the negative PR of
> such a move isn't worth $10000/yr in revenue?  Who's making these
> brain-damaged decisions?
>
>
> http://www.networkworld.com/community/banshee-amazon-store-disabled-by-canonical-in-ubuntu
>

I too would be interested in hearing the rationale behind this decision.

Most of the article seems needlessly inflammatory, but the telling
part of the article was:

> But ask yourself whether this would seem
> Kosher if Microsoft or Apple [did the same thing].

I can't think of a reason why this kind of thing should be acceptable
for Canonical when it would clearly cause an uproar for Microsoft or
Apple to do something similar.

Just my two cents,
Evan