[ Thanks to Steven J.
Vaughan-Nichols for this link. ]
“Canonical, Ubuntu’s parent company, has spoken with
the developers of Banshee, which is to be the default music player
in next version of Ubuntu Linux, and announced a “compromise” on
how to handle Banshee’s revenue from its built-in Amazon Store
connection. Banshee’s programmers are not happy.“Banshee had been devoting all the funds it made from its Amazon
Store connection to the GNOME Foundation. Canonical wanted Banshee
to either disable the Amazon Store connection coming on by default,
which competed with its own Ubuntu One music store, or take a 75%
cut of any revenue from the Banshee/Amazon stream.”
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