Stallman sobre la integración Amazon – Ubuntu: «es spyware»

Al hilo de la integración de Amazon en la nueva Ubuntu (cuyas ventajas y desventajas ya analizamos detalladamente en estas páginas), Stallman dice (desde las páginas de la FSF):

But there’s more at stake here than whether some of us have to eat some words. What’s at stake is whether our community can effectively use the argument based on proprietary spyware. If we can only say, «free software won’t spy on you, unless it’s Ubuntu,» that’s much less powerful than saying, «free software won’t spy on you.»

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To protect users’ privacy, systems should make prudence easy: when a local search program has a network search feature, it should be up to the user to choose network search explicitly each time. This is easy: all it takes is to have separate buttons for network searches and local searches, as earlier versions of Ubuntu did.

Privacidad por una parte. Erosión del discurso del software libre por otra.

En Venture Beat sentencian:

Aside from the issue of how unusual it would be for someone to be searching their own computer for commercially-useful queries like “the beatles,” or “Lord of the Rings movie,” this is unlikely to satisfy privacy advocates.

Hacer el sistema intrusivo para un caso de uso altamente infrecuente es mala idea. Y el coste en privacidad también es mala idea.

Recomendable volver a leer el análisis que hicimos al respecto de la integración de Amazon en Ubuntu.