Lucid changes to Firefox default search provider

[Alain-Olivier Breysse]

Bonjour,

Ref. Rick's announcement "change #2 is changing the default search provider
in Firefox to Yahoo!", I understand the economics behind it, but, as it has
been voiced in forums, since Yahoo! now works hand in hand with Microsoft,
how can a main supporter of the Linux community like Canonical strike a
derive deal with Microsoft. Most upsetting. It's like IBM relying on Bing
for its search engines.

Because it not all about economics, but strategy also. You will definitely
loose follow up as Ubuntu users are also knowledgeable  and most of the time
anti Microsoft.

The motivation  of your decision is already being talked about around the
net in many different languages, and because it is the net, will continue to
do so.

Regards,

P.S. : Keep up the good work nonetheless.

Alain-Olivier Breysse
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