Its all relative. If you didn't have Red Hat (a corporation that makes
money), you wouldn't have constant updates to Gnome for Debian. If you didn't
have the Linux Foundation (which receives corporate funding), you wouldn't
have the kernel for Debian. Desktop GNU/Linux was pretty rough until Ubuntu
came along. You can deny that all you want, but that is the reality of
things. Deal with it.
Ubuntu takes Debian and makes it a little bit more user friendly. You could
even say that Ubuntu/Trisquel is more desirable than Debian for desktop use
and servers due to the LTS releases having 5 years of support while the
Debian releases crap out after 2 years. As for the "spyware", the online
searches and communication is disabled by default in Ubuntu 16.04 and no
information is sent to Canonical or Amazon. The version in Trisquel, if the
team wanted to, could just make that switch to enable the searching disabled
and have the servers the dash uses set to null.
Its just easy to point fingers (that's what most Free Software people do
these days) instead of looking at the bigger picture and trying to make the
changes yourself. I do realize I don't have the time and/or technical
knowledge to build an OS, but I'm also not going to discredit Canonical for
taking a chance in improving the landscape.
