Published at LXer:

There are a lot of 'touchy' issues in the open source world - none are perhaps more controversial than those involving money. One such case is the recent attempt by Ubuntu to redirect affiliate dollars away from the GNOME project and its Banshee media player - to Ubuntu's own bank account. It's a debate that this week hit Twitter with a flame war of vitriol and NSFW comments. Canonical announced this week that in Ubuntu 11.04, Banshee will have both the AmazonMP3 and Ubuntu One music stores and 25 percent of the revenues will be directed to the GNOME Foundation. GNOME founder Miguel de Icaza wasn't as polite Ewing, and also struck out aggressively at Ubuntu: @jonobacon Oh you are entirely within your rights. Douchebags, assholes and dicks almost never violate any laws. A dick move is a dick move

Read More...