Yahoobuntu;

Those of you testing out the development version of Ubuntu Lucid should notice a change in Firefox very soon. The default search provider for new installations of Ubuntu Lucid (10.04) and upgrades will be Yahoo! and not Google. Canonical have struck a revenue sharing deal with Yahoo! which generates income for the company. This revenue should help pay the wages of Ubuntu Developers employed by Canonical, and support the infrastructure required to develop and build the distribution.

So when using the search box in the top right corner of Firefox on Ubuntu, you’ll be taken to a Yahoo! results page rather than the old default Google one. If you are upgrading to Ubuntu 10.04 and you had Google as your search provider (the previous default) then this will change to Yahoo!. You can of course change the search provider, this is merely the default for Lucid. Doing so will mean your search revenue won’t go via Yahoo! to Canonical. That’s your choice, clearly.

In addition, the browser ’start page’ – that is the page you see initially when you open the browser – will reflect whatever the default search provider is. So in the top right, if you choose ‘Google’ you’ll get the Google start page, and conversely if you choose ‘Yahoo!’ you’ll get the Yahoo! start page when you first open the browser. Again, you can change the start page to be blank or use some other search provider. These are just the new defaults.

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Είναι πλέον ξεκάθαρο ότι η Google έχει ενοχλήσει ΠΟΛΥ κόσμο και θα πρέπει λίγο να προσέξει. Από την άλλη αυτή η κίνηση της Canonical είναι λίγο περίεργη. Όλοι θα πρέπει ήδη να ξέρετε ότι Yahoo! και Micro$oft πλέον είναι στο ίδιο κρεββάτι. Και όποιος ή όποια πέρασε από το κρεββάτι της Micro$oft ΝΑΙ πήρε χρήματα και ΝΑΙ εν τέλει πήρε τα παπάρια του. Αν αυτό είναι το ζητούμενο μπορείτε να αλλάξετε και επάγγελμα. Εξάλλου τώρα έχετε εμπειρία! Καλό πεζοδρόμιο ή calling. Σας αξίζει!

Canonical is unusual among major commercial Linux distributors in the sense that it doesn't sell an "enterprise" or "pro" version of its software. In an effort to make this approach sustainable, Canonical is experimenting with a number of different business models, including commercial support for end users, subscription-based Web services, and integration support for hardware makers. In the announcement about the search engine change, Spencer says that Canonical's partnership with Yahoo will help to fund the ongoing development of the distribution.

"I am pursuing this change because Canonical has negotiated a revenue sharing deal with Yahoo! and this revenue will help Canonical to provide developers and resources to continue the open development of Ubuntu and the Ubuntu Platform," he wrote. "This change will help provide these resources as well as continuing to respect our users' default search across Firefox."

Canonical currently gains a portion of the revenue from Google searches, so the change means that Yahoo offered a better deal. Search partnerships have become increasingly common. The development of Firefox itself is largely funded by Mozilla's relationship with Google and other search providers. Hardware vendor Dell already ships Yahoo as the default search engine in its Ubuntu-based systems due to its own revenue sharing deal with the search company.

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Κι εγώ που νόμιζα ότι δεν χρειαζότανε χρήματα για να κάνεις κάτι στην πληροφορική. Τι αφελής! ( rolleyes )