On 12/13/2012 02:40 PM, Derek Martin wrote:
Turn it off. It's very easy to do.
True. But once bitten, twice shy. There's the worry that it will turn itself back on in some future update, or another similar "feature" will be introduced.
It's annoying that an organization prominent in the free software community has elected to enable somewhat privacy-invasive software features by default, but it's not really a problem. We are not sheep: We can think for ourselves, and I daresay that most of us use Linux because we already do.
We are not sheep, but at Installfests and with similar outreach efforts, we are shepherds.
... You can, of course, also just use a different desktop environment, like XFCE.
That's true and one of the great things about Free Software is the choice. For new users, it was nice being able to point them to Ubuntu because of the wealth of community resources online. It's not quite the same experience with other distributions of desktop environments, which is why the current direction of Canonical feels like such a loss.
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