Comment 52 for bug 528910

Hello passionate Ubuntu people!

I appreciate all the comments that have been written on this bug. Now that the music store is in public beta so folks can see it for themselves and better understand how it works I think it is time to resolve this bug. After considering the content of this bugreport I am closing the rhythmbox-ubuntuone-music-store bugtask as wontfix. As I am not a member of the ~ubuntu-community team I won't change the status of the ubuntu-community bugtask but I ask that David, Jorge, Daniel, or Jono go ahead and change that bugtask to wontfix also.

Canonical has partnered with 7digital to provide some major parts of the Ubuntu One music store, has paid developers to implement the client side components of the Ubuntu One music store, and the store uses existing Ubuntu One file sharing servers to deliver the music. Ubuntu is based on Debian, and we still call it Ubuntu. Ubuntu One file sharing is currently powered by Amazon S3 storage, but we still call it Ubuntu One file sharing. Having intimate knowledge of the amount of code and number of full time developers that it took in order to build this music store, I think keeping the name is both accurate and honest. The assertion that Canonical does not have any control over the music store is untrue, we have a contract with 7digital and have reasonable amounts of control (sadly that control does not extend to what format the music labels provide content to us in). I believe other comments have addressed the music being sold at a price and in the mp3 format - neither of those things prevent the music store from being named as it is.

best wishes...