Buy from the Ubuntu One music store, help save the Iberian Lynx

[Foster Grant]

Nice way to drive traffic to the new music store in Rhythmbox (and also Banshee with an extension) ... gee, I suppose it's a pretty nice thing to do in general. Canonical will donate 50 percent of the purchase price from the Ubuntu One music store (to a maximum of US$1,004) to the charity SOS Lynx, a charity dedicated to saving the endangered Iberian lynx. There are estimated to be only 105 Iberian lynxes left, making it the most endangered feline species in the world.

Music store tracks cost 77 cents each. Most albums cost US$7.77 apiece.

http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/music-store-lynx

[Phrea]

50 percent of the purchase price from the Ubuntu One music store (to a maximum of US$1,004)

Wow, that's almost insane !
How good are we eh, I might actually buy some stuff via the store now.

[Penguin Guy]

They look like giant cats with goatees. Anyway, good for Ubuntu, these animals are cool.

[migs73]

77 cents??? 99 pence here in UK. Looks like we will have to be more generous to the disappearing Lynx than our US cousins!
Obviously shipping all those MP3 files over the atlantic must come at a premium.

[Matthewthegreat]

People who pirate music are killing the Iberian Lynx.

This is great I can support the artist, ubuntu, and save the Iberian Lynx all at the same time.

[toupeiro]

I think something was wrong with the store last night. I tried multiple times to buy the album and it said it couldn't be done at this time. Anyone else experience this?

[madjr]

is for a good cause

[Steven_S]

"to a maximum of US$1,004"

When I read that, I found that a bit cheap. Thousands of people would buy music, thinking that they help save the lynx, and in the end the charity gets a maximum of 1,004 USD from Ubuntu?

So I visited the website of the charity, and found out that it is a campaign organisation. As I understand that, they don't really do conservation action themselves, but kind of act as advocates and PR people. That's cool and useful, but if Ubuntu wants to make a PR thing out of this themselves, why don't they engage a bit more seriously to an organisation that has some real action information? And maybe also newsletters beyond December 2008?

It seems to me that someone googled "Lynx", bumped into this organisation, and made some half-baked attempt to get something going.

I'm not impressed...

[jetsam]

I don't know about the details of the funds and whatnot, but it's nice they raised awareness of the issue, and the Iberian Lynx is an amazing and endangered species, so good for Canonical.

Here are links to 5 mainstream environmental charities for those concerned. I'm not affiliated with any of them, although I've been to a few Audubon events.

World Wildlife Fund
Sierra Club
The Nature Conservancy
National Audubon Society
Doctors Without Borders

The last is environmental because neglected public health issues have environmental consequences.