The point was not about avoiding or getting rid of the "bloat/crapware". The poster above me claimed that you won't find "bloat/crapware" in an open-source os and I was just pointing out that with Ubuntu's recent changes, it is not the case anymore.
That wasn't exactly my point. My point was that the bloatware/crapware problem in Windows has gotten so out of hand that MS had to do something and that something was to start tightening up who can ship software for the platform.
Of course there is nothing stopping people shipping crapware for Ubuntu or any Linux distro. The advantage of open source OSs is that you will always have a choice about how much "nannying" you want from the OS.
