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["Stephen M. Webb" <stephen.webb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 15-11-06 12:27 AM, Robert Schroll wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 6:55 PM, Peter Bittner <peter.bittner@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I've accidentally come across a Richard Stallman interview on Ubuntu.
>> He's mainly concerned about the spying feature of Ubuntu's dash when
>> you do a search on your device.
> 
> RMS is displaying his usual flair for the dramatic.  In Unity 7, searches in the Dash go to all scopes by default.  If
> you have remote scopes installed (and there are some installed by default), your searches will go out on the network.
> 
> In earlier versions, this was not well advertised and difficult to disable.  Since then, I believe there is more
> notification of this during install and a single button to turn off all remote searches by default.  It's not set to
> "Off" by default, and that's not good enough for RMS.

To be clear: no version of Ubuntu was ever released without a single button to disable network searches and a
notification on install.  Clicking a single button has never been a difficult way to disable this feature.

RMS and others have a political agenda and use polemics to further advance their extremist causes.  In some cases their
contribution is a valuable counterbalance to certain tendencies in technology, but it turns out not everything you read
on the internet is completely true or even useful for leading a rewarding and productive life.

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Stephen M. Webb  <stephen.webb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>