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booksnmore4you
March 20th, 2010, 08:28 AM
Okay, there's tones that is just awfully wrong about this.
Look up ubuntu-sucks.com - http://www.whois.net/whois/ubuntu-sucks.com
It is owned by Canonnical and redirects to a bug report page. Same with ubuntusucks.com - http://www.whois.net/whois/ubuntusucks.com
Look, I really enjoy Ubuntu. It's been my preferred Linux OS...to this point.
But this is disgusting in terms of free, freedom and free speech.
Disgusting. Utterly.
And I am from here on boycotting Ubuntu because of it.
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derekeverett
March 20th, 2010, 08:33 AM
How is that disgusting in terms of free speech?
They have as much right as anyone else to buy the domain.. if someone really wants to have an Ubuntu-sucks domain they will get one...
I agree that Ubuntu have some rules that I don't agree with as far as not completely being fair to all.. christian vs. satanic edition perhaps.. but I'm not sure I see your point here.
NightwishFan
March 20th, 2010, 08:35 AM
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booksnmore4you
March 20th, 2010, 08:42 AM
Not even the money-grubbing freedom-suppressing Microsoft has gone to this length. See http://www.microsoftsucks.org/
I discovered this fact about Canonnical while researching the meme of [product]sucks domains for a paper.
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KiwiNZ
March 20th, 2010, 08:43 AM
How on earth is owning a Domain name taking away your freedom or freedom of speech?
derekeverett
March 20th, 2010, 08:46 AM
I wouldn't assume that you know the motives behind Canonical purchasing the domain..
I have no clue either, but simply buying it so that no one else can doesn't make a lot of sense to me. That is a never ending expense of money and time to buy up every negative sounding domain name out there.
There could well be a good explanation. Maybe your jumping to conclusions?
ad_267
March 20th, 2010, 08:50 AM
Ha, I think that's quite clever.
I don't think they're doing it to prevent anyone else from owning the domain, but rather to point people with complaints towards the bug reporting site.
derekeverett
March 20th, 2010, 08:53 AM
Ha, I think that's quite clever.
I don't think they're doing it to prevent anyone else from owning the domain, but rather to point people with complaints towards the bug reporting site.
Like I said.. could be an explanation...
If that's the case then that is clever!
Chronon
March 20th, 2010, 08:54 AM
Ha, I think that's quite clever.
I don't think they're doing it to prevent anyone else from owning the domain, but rather to point people with complaints towards the bug reporting site.
This is my view as well. I think it shows a sense of humor.
derekeverett
March 20th, 2010, 08:55 AM
I vote this thread be marked as solved!
booksnmore4you
March 20th, 2010, 08:58 AM
[productname]sucks and [companyname]sucks domains are a well developed meme, a well developed format in which people make criticisms about a product or company.
Reference, for a few example
www.paypalsucks.com
www.oreilly-sucks.com
disney-sucks.com
www.allstateinsurancesucks.com
www.peta-sucks.com
lowes-sucks.com
It seems Canonnical wishes to suppress that well-known meme/format, suppress the wide reading of critical views that might come from it.
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