I was reading another Slashdot post today. I dunno, I reckon it's more a case of Microsoft helping to pay for Ubuntu development through Yahoo! searches. Pretty prophetic stuff:
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| Ubuntu Moves To Yahoo For Default Firefox Search |
| from the can-you-say-bing dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Wednesday January 27, @08:16 (Yahoo!) |
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| https://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/01/27/0118244/Ubuntu-Moves-To-Yaho
| o-For-Default-Firefox|
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An anonymous reader writes "Starting in Ubuntu's Lucid Lynx release, [0]Firefox's default search engine will be switched from Google to Yahoo.
The switch was made after Canonical 'negotiated a revenue sharing deal with Yahoo.' Google will still be available as a choice. Since Yahoo search is now powered by Microsoft's Bing, this would seem to mean that Microsoft will be paying people for using Ubuntu."
Discuss this story at:
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/01/27/0118244
Links:
0. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2010-January/030065.html
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