Bacon’s new posting specifically apologises for that “childish” reference, saying “I apologize whole-heartedly to referring to your position in your post as ‘childish‘ and I continue to have great respect for the work you do to encourage and grow software freedom around the world”. Bacon sticks to his position that Ubuntu’s Dash is not acting as spyware and says that his issue was that calling Ubuntu spyware “somewhat over-sensationalizes the issue”.

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