On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 02:26:14PM +0200, Hugo Roy wrote:
Again, I personally have no problem with that. My main problem are:
- Ubuntu One is proprietary server
- The Front page says Open Source instead of Free Software
But I don't think it's worth having that discussion. Canonical has made their choice on that. Let's talk about important issues like Ubuntu One.
Canonical tries add sources of revenue other than services. They made this shift (as far as I can tell from the press) after Jane Silber became CEO and Matt Asa became COO.
They want to make money by proprietary cloud services (like Ubuntu One), selling proprietary software (see their shop) and other immaterial commodities (music, films) through their store. They try to imitate Apple in this respect.
Their Music Store contains music in patented formats, their Software Center was named Software Store in past and I saw screenshots which showed a price tag in the user interface which is an indicator that they either want to sell proprietary software or want to make it easy to company which sell proprietary software to install it on Ubuntu. Moreover, their cloud service isn't Free Software and it took years with Launchpad to be released under a free licence.
The changes of the user interface and their branding and corporate identity in Ubuntu 10.04 are a clear indicator for this change of their business model.
Since I saw what is coming in Ubuntu 10.04 and what happend to Canonical, I can't recommend to install Ubuntu.
Regards, Matthias-Christian