On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 21:00, Carlos Ribeiro <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 20:46, Rick Spencer <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On Tue, 2010-01-26 at 20:17 -0200, Carlos Ribeiro wrote: >> >> > >> > Given the sensitivity of this change for many people, I would ask you >> > to consider keeping the current setting whatever it is (Google or >> > not). People tend to be very passionate about such issues. Also, keep >> > in mind that for many people, Google (still) is the official partner >> > of the Mozilla Foundation. For those folks it MAY seem that Canonical >> > is cutting Mozilla's revenue. While I am sure that this was not the >> > intention, this is the way things are. I think Canonical should do a >> > better effort to coordinate the communication of this change with the >> > community to avoid bad rep. >> > >> Well, in terms of not changing to the new default, that would be a bit >> of a departure for how Ubuntu handles changes to defaults, and I'm not >> certain why this particular change would be special cased. >> > > 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. > Oops. Forgot to say that this change isn't being done for technical, security or aesthethical reasons; it's being done for marketing reasons. By changing the default (of a existing & running instalation) you are asking your users to accept whatever deal Canonical has made. Even if for me it doesn't make any difference, I think this is a strong enough reason to proceed with care. -- Carlos Ribeiro Consultoria em Projetos twitter: http://twitter.com/carribeiro blog: http://rascunhosrotos.blogspot.com mail: [email protected]
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