<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 21:23, Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jonathan@ubuntu.com">jonathan@ubuntu.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 1:15 AM, Rick Spencer<br> <div class="im"><<a href="mailto:rick.spencer@canonical.com">rick.spencer@canonical.com</a>> wrote:<br> </div>> Note that we are not in any way restricting users' choice. Users are<br><div class="im"> > totally free to choose their search provider, and it is very easy to<br> > change. In the meantime, support for Ubuntu is a *good thing*. So,<br> > agreed, we should listen to reasonable and informed feedback, and I<br> > firmly intend to.<br> <br> </div>I can't think of any rational kind of argument against it. It's no<br> less or more freedom restricting than having Google as a search engine<br> provider. Maybe in a few decades we'll have web search that will run<br> on 100% free software then we can switch to that instead :)<br></blockquote><div><br>Having 100% free software solves one half of the problem. The real problem is having 100% free and open data, and also all the infrastructure to store and process it. That's way harder.<br> </div><br></div>-- <br>Carlos Ribeiro<br>Consultoria em Projetos<br>twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/carribeiro">http://twitter.com/carribeiro</a><br>blog: <a href="http://rascunhosrotos.blogspot.com">http://rascunhosrotos.blogspot.com</a><br> mail: <a href="mailto:carribeiro@gmail.com">carribeiro@gmail.com</a><br>