shameful censoring of mono opposition

Il giorno ven, 12/06/2009 alle 12.05 +0100, Matthew Paul Thomas ha scritto: > > Depends what you mean by "we". You are welcome to create a derivative > OS > that has a different default. Yes I could fork the project (this word is coming out too frequently in my opinion recent bug reports and mailing list posts) but let's not lie on the fact that reputation and popularity differences would leave the non-default google search on the screen of most of the linux users. If people like me prefers to aggregate around ubuntu instead of creating our own fork is because it is better to join forces than to create a dead project. The fact that I use "us" when speaking of ubuntu is because I tend to consider myself part of this community by merely acting into it, if this is not what you want you need to change your marketing about cooperation with ubuntu :) I think that in ordinary users (and my own) balance of priorities that is a low priority issue. I changed the firefox home page for my mother who would be a potential "victim" and that sufficed. Still, it is not a Good Thing that the custom search is not advertised as such. That's something microsoft would do. A phrase like "this is a google custom search [link to longer explanation], using this has the following advantages for ubuntu [link] and means that your search query will go to the ubuntu server and return ubuntu-customised results" just below the search field would make me happy. <acid>It would be even nicer if the search was in Italian for Italian users like my mother who does not speak english, but that would be asking too much I suppose.</acid> > > > People who can't tell the difference will keep using a "different" > > google, but there is not even way to get some discussion around this > >... > > That's incorrect: There was a discussion on this exact issue, led by > Canonical's COO, at UDS Jaunty. There's probably even a video of it at > <http://video.ubuntu.com/uds/jaunty/Desktop/>. When I asked, politely, on this mailing list, at least twice, more or less nobody cared to reply, and there was no way to obtain anything else than silence. I am glad that you discussed the topic at UDS, and it is a pity that so often questions remain "in the air" on other channels. Could you please provide a link to the outcome of that discussion? I am really interested in knowing what happened and I am not finding it. Clearly this did not lead to any change in Jaunty as I just saw by restoring the default firefox page. Also, is it possible to know who participated in such a discussion in general? I didn't find anything related in the following three sites https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UDSJaunty/Discussions https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/sprints/uds-jaunty https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UDSJaunty/Report Thank you Vincenzo