One of the reasons that it is hard to find hardware with Linux OEM
(Original Equipment Manufacturer) installed is that some manufacturers
make as much or more profit pre-installing ad-ware or promo-ware
(bloatware) as they do on the actual hardware. They all (the OEMs)
depend this income in some way.
My hope is this is not too obtrusive and Canonical/Ubuntu figure out
that they can split the revenue from this with hardware manufacturers.
This type of arrangement may lead to OEMs selling Ubuntu pre-installed
systems with evergreen (ongoing) revenue potential instead of depending
on (bloatware) for profits. As well as making consumers happy this may
be useful in opening up the field to various alternative operating
systems including other Linus distros.
2 more pennies
Alan
On 12-09-24 11:25 AM, Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre wrote:
On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Jeremy <[email protected]> wrote:
[...]
I feel amazingly calm, just thought it was an interesting thing I had not
heard about yet.
It wasn't directed at you personally; just meaning: let's see this
objectively first.
[...]
It is of course an affiliate ad, let's call a spade a spade. It is paid
results from amazon. If that is not an ad then I have been in the wrong
business for a while now.
I didn't read it this way. I still don't. It pays us to provide an
amazing experience to people who use the Dash to search for things and
get what they want, no matter what they are searching for. It's a
benefit to the users, and in turn makes Ubuntu shine.
I could be wrong, and I'm not privy to the details about this. (Seems
to me like having the results go through Canonical first diminishes
the worth of the search results for Amazon quite a lot). If it's an
extra revenue, then great. It means more money to bring in resources
to make Ubuntu even better. What does it change to the users,
especially once the results are anonymized?
Anyways, as long as it is an opt-in search option and not on by default, and
does not share private data from the rest of the lenses then I have no
problem with it really. Firefox has different search options in their search
bar, same dif. Seems basically a dumb feature, and I don't like the idea of
the search becoming some behemoth for searching the whole world... I just
want to find my apps, and maybe files. I have a web browser for searching
the web.
That's the difference, and where a lot of people disagree. I would
very much like to start my computer and just press the Super key and
type in the search to have it open up in a web browser. Seems very
efficient. However, I'm less happy about the selection of Amazon over
Google, but oh well.
It's still a recent change, orchestrated (sadly) very late in the
release cycle, so there will definitely be lots of improvements in the
weeks to come. I'm certain we'll see at least a few decent ways to
disable the external search, and probably a way to choose where to
send the searches. If not, we'll see new scopes to handle this kind of
thing.
Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <[email protected]>
Freenode: cyphermox, Jabber: [email protected]
4096R/EE018C93 1967 8F7D 03A1 8F38 732E FF82 C126 33E1 EE01 8C93
_______________________________________________
mlug mailing list
[email protected]
https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
--
Alan Truesdale
TrueChem Limited
616 Charon
Montréal Québec H3K 2P6
téléphone/telephone 514-937-4589
télécopie/fax 514-937-1216
_______________________________________________
mlug mailing list
[email protected]
https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
