I think jumping to the conclusion that there will be banner ads is a bit of an over reaction. Right now the adds are fairly innocuous, but it is still frustrating that adds are the default instead of just charging me a few dollars. I have no idea, but I would think $5 or $10 would be far more than they could get showing me a couple adds. Though if they decided to charge even $5 to download Ubuntu people would lose their minds more than they do with small adds like these, and so here we are.
Do you think we will see banner ads eventually in Ubuntu?
I agree I’d rather pay 30usd or whatever.