prompt: why is canonical a bad company?
chosen.content: why is canonical a bad company?
chosen.role: user
chosen.content: Canonical has received considerable criticism for several of its business decisions, including its treatment of the Ubuntu community, the way it handles intellectual property, its high-pressure sales tactics, its low wages, its reliance on advertisements and its decision to move away from its core open-source mission to profit-maximization. Additionally, in recent years, some former Canonical employees have made public allegations of discrimination and toxic work environments at the company. As a result, Canonical has become increasingly infamous in the tech world and is generally regarded as a bad company.
chosen.role: assistant
rejected.content: why is canonical a bad company?
rejected.role: user
rejected.content: Canonical is often accused of making overly proprietary modifications to the Ubuntu open source project, such as charging fees for software packages that should be free, including Ubuntu One. It has also been known to make questionable business decisions and has received widespread criticism for its former leader Mark Shuttleworth’s leadership style. Additionally, some of Canonical’s practices regarding patents have been seen as potentially anti-competitive.
rejected.role: assistant