Wouldn’t want all those crazy Stallmanites hanging around calling them on advertising non-free software, which you can get from their new package manager that caters to for-profit companies.
update-motd seems like it could be useful if it only ever showed important messages (“Please update the xeyes package immediately to avoid the EYEFORK vulnerability, see http://forkbleed.panic for more information”).
Showing clickbait will quickly make people immune to reading motd, missing the real messages.
By the way, this is a part of what Ubuntu motd contains now:
The Ubuntu Blog advertising proprietary software? I hope they got paid for it at least.
Wouldn’t want all those crazy Stallmanites hanging around calling them on advertising non-free software, which you can get from their new package manager that caters to for-profit companies.
The word “emacs” doesn’t even appear in the listicle so I suppose it’s just clickbait.
update-motdseems like it could be useful if it only ever showed important messages (“Please update the xeyes package immediately to avoid the EYEFORK vulnerability, see http://forkbleed.panic for more information”). Showing clickbait will quickly make people immune to reading motd, missing the real messages.Heh, I wonder what the author of https://deadmemes.net/2010/10/19/fear-and-loathing-in-debianubuntu-or-who-needs-etcmotd would say to this latest travesty.