<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 20:46, Rick Spencer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rick.spencer@canonical.com">rick.spencer@canonical.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;"> <div class="im">On Tue, 2010-01-26 at 20:17 -0200, Carlos Ribeiro wrote:<br> <br> ><br> > Given the sensitivity of this change for many people, I would ask you<br> > to consider keeping the current setting whatever it is (Google or<br> > not). People tend to be very passionate about such issues. Also, keep<br> > in mind that for many people, Google (still) is the official partner<br> > of the Mozilla Foundation. For those folks it MAY seem that Canonical<br> > is cutting Mozilla's revenue. While I am sure that this was not the<br> > intention, this is the way things are. I think Canonical should do a<br> > better effort to coordinate the communication of this change with the<br> > community to avoid bad rep.<br> ><br> </div>Well, in terms of not changing to the new default, that would be a bit<br> of a departure for how Ubuntu handles changes to defaults, and I'm not<br> certain why this particular change would be special cased.<br></blockquote><div><br>Let's say that for some people, choosing the search provider is a kind of political statement. For some it's Google ("don't be evil"), for others is something else (because Google *is* evil in their opinion or whatever). I may be a little over the edge with my concern though. Let's see what other folks say.<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>