After Canonical swapped in their own Amazon referral code for Banshee in Ubuntu a while ago, Linux Mint now apparently followed suit.

Buried within the pages of a long forum thread on German site “ubuntuuser.de” is a surprising revelation: Linux Mint altered the Banshee Amazon MP3 referral code to that of its own, taking 100% of all profits made in the process. In “standard” Banshee all money raised through the sale of MP3s via the plugin goes to the non-profit GNOME Foundation - which, as of September 2011, has raised some $9200.

Clem, the lead developer of Mint, attempts to address these issues in the comments of the article but somewhat fails to understand why doing this is a somewhat unfriendly move in the first place (just like the Ubuntu developers did before him). Very disappointing, I think.

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After Canonical swapped in their own Amazon referral code for Banshee in Ubuntu a while ago, Linux Mint now apparently followed suit. Buried within the pages of a long forum thread on German site "ubuntuuser.de" is a surprising revelation: Linux Mint altered the Banshee Amazon MP3 referral code to that of its own, taking 100% of all ...