Richard Stallman calls Ubuntu Linux 'spyware'
well as the founder and president of the Free Software Foundation, has told a South American free software its events. He reasoned it out by saying that Ubuntu Linux "…spies on its users" by collating users' desktop search activity and selling it to Amazon. This came up with Amazon search integrated into its Dash desktop search function.
this feature, and that it also makes users' search information anonymous before sending it to Amazon, the fact that Ubuntu users are shown Amazon ads in response to desktop search queries is something that has not gone down too well with many.
Red Hat has announced that it has appointed a new head for its virtualisation technologies and solutions. Radhesh Balakrishnan will serve as the global leader of Red Hat’s virtualisation infrastructure solutions, including responsibilities for the company’s Hat Enterprise virtualisation technologies and solutions.
Balakrishnan joins Red Hat from Microsoft, where he held product management and marketing responsibilities across a wide range of product lines.
“Radhesh and his team will continue to drive open virtualisation forward through our Red Hat Enterprise virtualisation and Red solutions – both of which are central to Red Hat’s open hybrid approach to the cloud. We welcome Radhesh to the Red Hat team,” said Paul Technologies, Red Hat.
The event organiser, however, denied Stallman's request by saying that it doesn’t want to restrict user’s freedom of choice. Stallman, evidently, got miffed by the response and sent an e-mail to all those on the mailing list of the organisation.