This wouldn't really work for a simple desktop user, seems like doing IT-department friendly crippled releases. Otherwise I was actually considering it...
To find that, you have to go to the home page, click on "community", then "get involved", and then find the little "donate" tab. I went looking the other day and gave up.
Put a friggin' button in the dock on every machine that shows whether you've donated recently. If they can put Amazon affiliate links in the main interface, they can just ask me directly for money.
Exactly - a requirement for payment will never happen. I think the author is forgetting the base ethos behind this OS - i.e. it is FOSS. If you want to support the project with your money, donate instead.
I initially thought that the idea to integrate Amazon was a very bad thing - but I think it could be useful. I use Amazon for many purchases, with the shopping lens search results from Amazon will be available via the launcher.
However, I think the lens should be easy to disable - especially since user data will be sent to a third party by default. At present the package can be removed, but this might not be intuitive enough for some users [1]
I also think the store / aggregator associated with shopping lens should be configurable to avoid providing Amazon with a monopoly over other sellers.
In this case the product isn't a product, it's an effort. Donations fit the model better as you're donating to the effort of a group of people to manage something, rather than to a group of people creating something from the ground up.
That's not to say the Ubuntu devs don't create anything of additional value.
