www/distros common-distros.html

[Richard M. Stallman]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Richard M. Stallman <rms>       12/10/22 02:36:31

Modified files:
        distros        : common-distros.html 

Log message:
        Explain Ubuntu adware.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/distros/common-distros.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.58&r2=1.59

Patches:
Index: common-distros.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/distros/common-distros.html,v
retrieving revision 1.58
retrieving revision 1.59
diff -u -b -r1.58 -r1.59
--- common-distros.html 3 Sep 2012 18:20:18 -0000       1.58
+++ common-distros.html 22 Oct 2012 02:36:31 -0000      1.59
@@ -174,9 +174,24 @@
 copies of Ubuntu, denying an important freedom.
 </p>
 
+<p>
+As of October 2012, Ubuntu
+<a 
href="http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/10/does-ubuntus-amazon-lens-break-eu-law";>
+sends personal data about users' searches</a> to a server belonging to
+Canonical, which sends back ads to buy things from Amazon.  This does
+not, strictly speaking, affect whether Ubuntu is free software, but it
+is a violation of users' privacy.  It also encourages buying from
+Amazon, a company <a href="http://DefectiveByDesign.org/";>associated
+with DRM</a> as well as mistreatment of workers, authors and publishers.</p>
+
+<p>This adware is one of the rare occasions in which a free software
+developer persists in keeping a malicious feature in its version of a
+program.</p>
+
 <h2>Some Other Distros</h2>
 
 Here we discuss some systems that are not GNU/Linux.
+</p>
 
 <h3 id="BSD">BSD systems</h3>
 
@@ -233,7 +248,7 @@
 <p>
 Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2012/09/03 18:20:18 $
+$Date: 2012/10/22 02:36:31 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>