On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 07:57:33PM -0700, Leslie S Satenstein wrote: > I never stopped using Fedora. > > > > Regards > Leslie > Mr. Leslie Satenstein > 50 years in Information Technology and going strong. > Yesterday was a good day, today is a better day, > and tomorrow will be even better. > > mailto:[email protected] > alternative: [email protected] > www.itbms.biz www.eclipseguard.com > > > --- On Fri, 10/19/12, Jeremy <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: Jeremy <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [MLUG] ubuntu adware? > To: [email protected] > Date: Friday, October 19, 2012, 5:49 PM > > On 12-09-24 10:41 AM, Jeremy wrote: > > http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/09/22/1319216/ubuntu-will-now-have-amazon-ads-pre-installed > > So I just booted up the 12.10 release CD and fancy that there is a big > honking Amazon icon preinstalled in the sidebar.
Just where is it? On the welcom screen for the live CD? On the login screen after installatino? One of the icons on your desktop? > I thought this was all going to be "unobtrusive" and "only if the user searches the net" and is "not an affiliate program" and "not advertising" and all the other platitudes coughed up last month. > > But don't worry, Mark says we already trust them because "they have root" on > our machines. I trust Debian. Isn't there another popular new Debian derivative? I forget its name. -- hendrik _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
