What Canonical/Ubuntu should do is some text like this:
"When you use Ubuntu we receive affiliate revenue based on your usage. How would you would like the money distributed?"
Then have some sliders like the Humble Bundle to proportion it to the program authors, GNU/fdo etc, EFF and Canonical. Everybody wins that way - folks who don't like Canonical can set their share to zero percent. And just by using the system you cause the appropriate people and organizations to be rewarded.
"When you use Ubuntu we receive affiliate revenue based on your usage. How would you would like the money distributed?"
Then have some sliders like the Humble Bundle to proportion it to the program authors, GNU/fdo etc, EFF and Canonical. Everybody wins that way - folks who don't like Canonical can set their share to zero percent. And just by using the system you cause the appropriate people and organizations to be rewarded.