Canonical could engage in other ways gaining Revenue than
patronizing end-users
Suggestions welcome. We'd love to hear them!
Kickstarter, Indiegogo, Flattr, Donations wia Bitcoin etc
A constant keepalive to Amazon is also not acceptable...
1) It's not just Amazon.
On 25/09/12 09:33, Juergen Schinker wrote:
Why is there no full Transparancy about this -the more i dig the more comes out...
J
In a situation where there is no transparency then the more you dig
nothing more comes out. What you are experiencing *is* transparency,
where the more you dig
On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 01:18:41 +0100
J Fernyhough j.fernyho...@gmail.com wrote:
[snip]
One solution is pretty straightforward: make online search features an
option in the installer (same page as third-party codecs) with a link
to the privacy policy etc.
[/snip]
How about a 'first run' screen
On 25/09/12 20:17, keith wrote:
On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 01:18:41 +0100
J Fernyhough j.fernyho...@gmail.com wrote:
[snip]
One solution is pretty straightforward: make online search features an
option in the installer (same page as third-party codecs) with a link
to the privacy policy etc.
[/snip]
On 25/09/12 20:17, keith wrote:
On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 01:18:41 +0100
J Fernyhough j.fernyhough-re5jqeeqqe8avxtiumw...@public.gmane.org wrote:
[snip]
It will be interesting to see how much referral income you actually get.
I'm surprised people even use the Dash/Lens thing.
I find it
Juergen Schinker wrote:
2) It's uninstallable
Good but not good enough - the default must be uninstalled
This isn't Debian, some would say that's a good thing.
3) It's not a constant keepalive, only when you search in the home
screen of the dash
4) It doesn't go directly to Amazon
On 25/09/12 09:33, Juergen Schinker wrote:
Kickstarter, Indiegogo,
They work well for one off projects up to (and sometimes over) a
specific target, but not for the ongoing costs associated with running a
company.
Flattr, Donations wia Bitcoin etc
Flattr is good for articles, podcasts,
Alan Lord (News) wrote:
I'm surprised people even use the Dash/Lens thing.
I find it rather pointless and slow and almost never have a need to
use it(them) at all.
I've found it reasonably good for finding things on Amazon these past
couple of days. Not really found a use for it
- Original Message -
On 22/09/12 19:29, keith wrote:
I'm happily using 12.04 on my laptop. I've just found out that
Canonical has a tie-up with Amazon for 12.10 onwards. There is some
discussion about what information will be sent to Amazon when
executing
a local search.
On 24/09/12 19:25, Juergen Schinker wrote:
For some of this content, if a user clicks the item and purchases it, it
will generate affiliate revenue that we can invest back into the project
(in a similar way to how we generate revenue from the Firefox search
bar). We have found affiliate revenue
On 24 September 2012 23:32, Alan Pope alan.p...@canonical.com wrote:
4) It doesn't go directly to Amazon (or other stores) anyway. It's proxied
via a Canonical server which anonymizes the requests.
Ohhh, this could open up a can of worms. Does this mean everything I
(hypothetically) type into
On 24/09/12 23:51, J Fernyhough wrote:
Ohhh, this could open up a can of worms. Does this mean everything I
(hypothetically) type into the Dash is being transmitted to Canonical?
If you type in the home screen of the dash, the search term goes to a
specific server at Canonical. It's
On 25 September 2012 00:08, Alan Pope alan.p...@canonical.com wrote:
On 24/09/12 23:51, J Fernyhough wrote:
Ohhh, this could open up a can of worms. Does this mean everything I
(hypothetically) type into the Dash is being transmitted to Canonical?
Hmmm.. You are writing from a google mail
On 25/09/2012 00:08, Alan Pope wrote:
On 24/09/12 23:51, J Fernyhough wrote:
Ohhh, this could open up a can of worms. Does this mean everything I
(hypothetically) type into the Dash is being transmitted to Canonical?
If you type in the home screen of the dash, the search term goes to a
First things, please don't view this as an attack on the usefulness of
Unity lenses. View it as coming from a critical friend (and if in
doubt re-read it a couple of times).
On 25 September 2012 00:22, James Thomas selin...@googlemail.com wrote:
Hmmm.. You are writing from a google mail account
On 25 September 2012 00:22, scoundrel50a scoundrel...@gmail.com wrote:
Its similar to apples voice..goes to their servers and then back to
you...its why I dont use itbe interesting to know how android voice
search works if it works in the same way..how much gets kept of the
Hello All
I'm happily using 12.04 on my laptop. I've just found out that
Canonical has a tie-up with Amazon for 12.10 onwards. There is some
discussion about what information will be sent to Amazon when executing
a local search.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4558489
Any information on
On 22/09/12 19:29, keith wrote:
I'm happily using 12.04 on my laptop. I've just found out that
Canonical has a tie-up with Amazon for 12.10 onwards. There is some
discussion about what information will be sent to Amazon when executing
a local search.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4558489
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