www/distros common-distros.html

[Richard M. Stallman]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Richard M. Stallman <rms>       15/06/14 08:31:39

Modified files:
        distros        : common-distros.html 

Log message:
        (Ubuntu): Mention Ubuntu Software Center.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/distros/common-distros.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.90&r2=1.91

Patches:
Index: common-distros.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/distros/common-distros.html,v
retrieving revision 1.90
retrieving revision 1.91
diff -u -b -r1.90 -r1.91
--- common-distros.html 29 May 2015 06:17:10 -0000      1.90
+++ common-distros.html 14 Jun 2015 08:31:37 -0000      1.91
@@ -191,8 +191,14 @@
 option to install nonfree packages too.  In addition, the version of
 Linux, the kernel, included in Ubuntu contains firmware blobs.</p>
 
+<p>The &ldquo;Ubuntu Software Center&rdquo; lists proprietary programs
+and free programs jumbled together.  It
+is <a 
href="http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/ubuntu_software_center_proprietary_and_free_software_mixed_confusing_ui";>hard
+to tell which ones are free</a> since proprietary programs for
+download at no charge are labelled &ldquo;free&rdquo;.</p>
+
 <p>
-As of October 2012, Ubuntu
+Since 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
@@ -203,7 +209,7 @@
 
 <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>
+free program.</p>
 
 <p>Ubuntu <a 
href="http://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/intellectual-property-policy#your-use-of-ubuntu";>appears
 to permit commercial redistribution of exact copies with the
@@ -329,7 +335,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2015/05/29 06:17:10 $
+$Date: 2015/06/14 08:31:37 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>