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by Profragile 3037 days ago
>The resources would have been better spent working directly with and on Debian

Debian is a slow bureaucratic political organization and works very hard to punish those who want too use it for business. Even if Cannonical had spent double the money, they'd probably get 1% of what they were able to do with Ubuntu.

>and offering support/consulting/employment to do so and it made Mark's intentions seem seriously dubious to me

Why should they not offer support to those who want too purchase it?

>although aside from the ad spying thing he hasn't really done anything egregious as I feared initially

The "spying" you are referring to is what Google Chrome and all the browsers do with what you type in your search bar. All Cannonical did was send your search queries to an HTTP endpoint. What are you searching in your app drawyer anyway that you don't want sent anywhere. It's not going to be anything other than the list of apps you have installed and all Linux repos can detect what apps you have downloaded from them.

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> is what Google Chrome and all the browsers do with what you type in your search bar

Not all browsers do that by default, Firefox for example asks you whether you want that or not, and the Tor Browser has it disabled by default. However that doesn't change the fact that all those who do it by default should correctly be labeled as "spyware", e.g. Google Chrome.

Can you offer any quick examples of your first point, especially punishing business users?