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white_devil
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Richard Stallman calls Ubuntu “spyware” because it...
> Shuttleworth seems to imply that they're not doing this for money, but he doesn't explicitly say it
What else would Amazon referrals be about, if not money?
lotu
on Dec 9, 2012
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You can do things for more than one reason. They can think these results will be beneficial to users
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help keep Canonical solvent.
nvmc
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I find it very hard to believe that anyone, let alone the presumably technologically proficient people at Canonical, would actually think that sponsored search results are useful. When was the last time anyone clicked a sponsored Google result?
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What else would Amazon referrals be about, if not money?