Because the NSA wants it on. And what makes you think the switch works?
Where do you think these features come from? Windows has it and probably put it in for the NSA, Google has it and works with the NSA as equal partners. When I first read and saw these enhanced search subsystems in Windows and Linux that built search databases by scanning the system's file contents and saw how much cpu they used I immediately said to myself "Somebody's searching for something and it isn't me!"
Furthermore I've always believed that Ubuntu was an NSA front from its very inception.
giardini|13 years ago
Where do you think these features come from? Windows has it and probably put it in for the NSA, Google has it and works with the NSA as equal partners. When I first read and saw these enhanced search subsystems in Windows and Linux that built search databases by scanning the system's file contents and saw how much cpu they used I immediately said to myself "Somebody's searching for something and it isn't me!"
Furthermore I've always believed that Ubuntu was an NSA front from its very inception.
(Puts tinfoil hat back on).
mattyohe|13 years ago
Now, correct me if I'm wrong here... but isn't Ubuntu open source?
robrenaud|13 years ago
ihsw|13 years ago
Saying simply 'money' is disingenuous and it doesn't indicate obviously enough that Canonical is acting in a greedy manner.
mayneack|13 years ago