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        <title><![CDATA[Yup]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I agree with this assessment of Verizon.  I have been a Verizon customer for many years and I fail to see where this popular &quot;forward-thinking&quot; misconception comes from.I think you're right about T-Mobile, and I would potentially add Virgin to that list.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[steamIngenious]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 11:16:47 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[OS over android]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I kinda don't care how they do it (average user thinking, I know) but if they keep the Android bootloader, then I'm happy.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[RockerGeek!]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 05:26:48 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Don't get me wrong]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I once liked Ubuntu very much. If we accept this crap from them then we don't actually care about freedom at all.Don't just hope for freedom... It's like hoping for a god... Freedom is NOT a religion. Stand up for your right.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[emenau]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 06:48:25 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The point is]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[First of all...Did you actually read the post? Here is a second chance to do so:http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/ubuntu-spyware-what-to-do That they ENABLE it by default. Things would be different if it was DISABLED by default and peopl can enable it afer reading and accepting an apropiate warning, AND is there would also be a privacy setting in the system preferences that can lockdown all privacy for the entire OS with ONE click.Privacy by default, and all the other features for nitwits who don't give a damn.That's more humanitarian...  Don't call it UBUNTU if you don't care about UBUNTU]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[emenau]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 06:41:27 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[It's not the 'net',]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[it's the big service companies, specifically Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, the carriers, and to a lesser degree Facebook etc that we are suspicious of. We like the idea of Ubuntu on mobile because it gives some hope of freedom.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[jdudeck]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 21:23:19 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I'm not sure the function is harvesting data from your files]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[My understanding was that the feature only used your search string. If the thing was harvesting data out of your hard earned files then this story would be a hell of a lot bigger than this post and a few passing mentions end of last year.Still, turn off the feature.. uninstall it (likely possible) and get on with life]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Neon Samurai]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 10:34:14 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Do you have curtains for your windows]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Or is it fine when everyone (including theives) can look inside, at any given timePrivacy is the better security.And surveillance is killing freedom.my data is MY data. I payed for it worked for it, and NOBODY has to browse in it.Apart from that i'm happy to share other stuff, But I&quot;M the one who need to decide WHAT i share...]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[emenau]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 10:12:47 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[hopefully]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I was thinking the same last night. My thoughts are that they'd just drop the OS firmware over top of Android leaving the boot loader in place; same as flashing Android proper over device original Samsungandroid. That's what I'm hoping anyhow.I'd like to see a dualboot option too personally though if it's one or the other, Ubuntu is a pretty good sell.I'd also suggest a full phone backup including your CM backups. Wugs makes it easy.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Neon Samurai]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 08:28:18 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Ubuntu vs Debian.. because they are different distributions]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[They are different products assembled by different companies with different target customers and this results in different priority choices when developing the product.I don't see how it is &quot;going evil on Debian&quot; that Canonical chooses different settings. That's why one forks a distribution, because they want to assemble it differently.Debian is producing a server and system builder's product. Canonical is producing an end consumer and workstation product. Simple.As for the search spyware.. It's Ubuntu.. &quot;$ sudo aptitude purge badthingy&quot;, disable the feature or watch for a community patch. Also, this is about Ubuntu on phones which does not use Unity. For that though, we'll have to wait until community devs get to install and tinker with the firmware build. In terms of a mobile phone, I didn't see it do anything more sinister than your already allowing with Android/Iphone and browsers today.What would be interesting though... Ubunto Phone forks.. maybe even a Debian Phone build including only what Ubunto Phone requires additionally. Just wait until the Hackers get at it and see what they can make it do (clarity; Hacker meaning the creative tinkerers not mass media miss-representation).]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Neon Samurai]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 08:20:02 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Cold Turkey won't do]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Not for any company that already has a nice big library of Office file formats. Maybe in an office of IT savvy that are not change adverse but if IT isn't the company focus it'll be hard making the change.Libre may work for your PDFs (I'll have to try some of ours actually.. nice tip) but there are still too many formatting changes between Libre/Office file format handling. The way Calc and Excel handle cell formulas is incompatible (Excel has a fit when Libre/Open save the current tab into the formula) and your outright SOL if you've got staff using document macros. On the networking side, we'd also want complete Active Directory profile support on the *nix side or (preferably) a *nix hosted LDAP on par with Active Directory in terms of policy management and everything else above and beyond authentication (auth is easy.. ).Oh baby though.. the day I can put a user in front of my *nix test rig and they can get all there tasks done.. oh I'll toss Windows like a turkey into a deep frier.Good on you though if you can make it work seamlessly. Mint is a nice choice too.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Neon Samurai]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 08:05:00 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Very Excited]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[When I read about this (and Ubuntu for Android) I was beyond excited: practically bouncing in my seat.  I'm really glad they will be pushing out an install for the Galaxy Nexus since that's what I have.  My concern is the pre-boot/recovery environment.  Will I still be able to use ClockworkMod and all the backups I have on it?  What if I don't like Ubuntu on my phone and want to switch back to a backup of my current ROM?  I haven't seen anything about that yet.  And while I rather enjoy the risky things you can do w/Android devices, this worries me more than normal.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[RockerGeek!]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 06:51:07 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Watch the video!]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[It's all explained in Shuttleworth's video, linked in the article. This isn't Ubuntu desktop at all, it's Ubuntu phone.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick-J]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 03:20:46 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[That's Stallman for you]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[It's a question of what you define as &quot;bad&quot;. There's no doubt that R.S. has a highly paranoid view of the net. The fact is that the world is changing, and we are all finding the concept of cloud services of every type to be highly convenient. We LIKE the idea that local and cloud storage is seamless, so we WANT a search to cover everything. R.S. still wants different buttons for &quot;search my device&quot; and &quot;search the net&quot;, but the increasing proportion of non-technical users just don't want that fuss, many barely even understand it.By subscribing to Google, Twitter, Facebook, Spotify, Amazon, etc. in the first place, we are constantly letting these services know what we like, search for, etc. anyway. Only by not using these services at all (maybe R.S. doesn't?) can you be genuinely private.Truly malicious software is a genuine problem, but I think it's actually mischievous to suggest that a feature that links local and global searches is &quot;spyware&quot;. Unless we all want to live in private bubbles, we need a clearer definition of what constitutes real malware, and what constitutes a net-connected convenience.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick-J]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 03:18:21 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Only North America has this issue with carriers]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The rest of the world does not suffer the carrier-muscle lock-in of the N.A. market. You can buy the phone you want, and buy the SIM &amp; contract you want, and there are plenty of independent retailers who will do a competitive bundle so you don't pay for the phone up-front. Ubuntu may well do better outside the USA (Canonical is a London-based company).I think the big issue is apps. It takes time to build up a wide enough range of apps before heavy users of one patform will migrate to another. If Ubuntu could run an Android emulator, that would help pull Android users over.It's why original Windows succeeded (you could still run DOS apps), and why Palm's WebOS didn't (you couldn't run legacy PalmOS apps). You have to ease transition.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick-J]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 02:58:15 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Objectives]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What can the objective for adopting Ubuntu, other then turning your phone to full blown desktop platform?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[chudak10]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 00:59:53 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Interesting BUT does it also come with spyware pre-installed?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I like the idea to be able to have a full debian system in my pocket.  BUT this:http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/ubuntu-spyware-what-to-do worries me.Can canonical be trusted now they walk with the bad boys?Ubuntu vs Android... Does google still beleive in &quot;Don't be evil&quot; and why does Canonical go evil on Debian???   Debian does all the hard work to make things secure, and Canonical breaks it like a herd of bulls in a China shopWhat's the verdict?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[emenau]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 19:50:56 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[We want this...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Our company was really close to adopt the Motorola Atrix precisely for the ability to have a phone that can have &quot;desktop&quot; capabilities when docked. Then once you take off you take the &quot;brain&quot; with you. The idea is to have just one device that does everything you need to get your job done.This capability has been potentially around for quite a while but not many hardware makers have jumped into providing it in a seamless way. I can see why; there is a conflict of interest for them since with this capability the need for tables dwindles a lot, not to mention most users won't need a full blown laptop. This is more true for those whose main use of computers is to work with cloud based applications; for them there is no need of powerful computers, a smaller device can do the job.Thanks,]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[ricardoc@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 17:14:17 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Who cares which carrier if it's for my tablet ?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Who cares which carrier will take up the Ubuntu OS ?   All I want is to get it on my tablet which has no phone capability anyway.  Will the Ubuntu OS be generic enough for us just to download it to an SD card and flash to any tablet device meeting HW requirements ?   If that's the way Ubuntu is going with the OS, I'm sure it will win the hearts and minds of all tablet users to give it a go...]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[raymond_lau_168@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:47:06 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[&quot;...only MS apps can fully function&quot;]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Best to go cold turkey, like Munich. I have no problem, though, being the only Mint guy here. And I can open and edit PDFs with LibreOffice.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[james.vandamme]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 11:25:27 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[phones would be enough]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I'd just be happy to get my staff off Itunes dependent Iphones, BES dependent blackberries and buggy Android devices. These devices have the current benefit of no killer business app.On the desktop side, it's still going to depend on what applications your business is addicted two. Nothing for Ubuntu can currently break the Office addition because only MS apps can fully function with current MS file formats. For Exchange, you can get close but your still looking at a user revolt and angry executives. Quickbooks... unless you go to the hosted service.. local Quickbooks is going to keep Windows on your accountant's machines.You only need to sign off on the invoice for one MS Office or Exchange license to start wishing for anything else with a remotely reasonable price point.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Neon Samurai]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 10:00:49 -0800</pubDate>
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