Amazuntu: Pictures Speak Louder Than Words

Posted by lordpenguin on Oct 16, 2012 5:26 PM EDT
The Powerbase; By Dean Howell 		Mail this story
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It’s no secret that there has been a lot of controversy surrounding Canonical’s latest efforts to monetize Ubuntu. Since integrating Amazon search results in Unity’s Dash, there has been a seemingly 50/50 backlash in the user community over the idea.

That opposing faction of users have been vocal enough to inspire a toggle switch so that users are able to turn the results on or off, which seems to be more than fair.

Deviant Artist albaux has taken another approach with freedom of speech and has made a clever wallpaper that pokes fun at the partnership. If it unknown at this point whether or not this wallpaper is designed in protest of the partnership or just good old fashioned fun with the Gimp. Either way, we think it’s mighty clever and good for a laugh.

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That's actually a pretty cool distro name caitlyn 1 1,053 Oct 17, 2012 12:01 PM

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