“I saw that you spun up an Ubuntu image in Azure”
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Re: “I saw that you spun up an Ubuntu image in Azure”
#2I thought this was going to be a Clippy joke, but the truth was much more disturbing. Why is Microsoft sharing this level of information (from a corporate account) with third parties?
Re: “I saw that you spun up an Ubuntu image in Azure”
#3All I see is, "JavaScript is not available."
Re: “I saw that you spun up an Ubuntu image in Azure”
#4Microsoft I'd expect this from but what the heck was Canonical thinking??
Re: “I saw that you spun up an Ubuntu image in Azure”
#5All I see is, "JavaScript is not available."
You should probably enable JavaScript. Sounds like you broke your browser and half the web with it :)
Re: “I saw that you spun up an Ubuntu image in Azure”
#6All I see is, "JavaScript is not available."
Thanks for letting us know.
Re: “I saw that you spun up an Ubuntu image in Azure”
#7Is it Azure sharing data, or the Ubuntu images phoning home?
Edit: a comment here links to an article with more details. MS shares with Canonical. Bad on both parts I'd say, at least weird usage of the data.
Re: “I saw that you spun up an Ubuntu image in Azure”
#8The register article on this https://www.theregister.com/2021/02/11/microsoft_azure_ubunt... has responses from Canonical and MS, which shed a bit more light on the situation.
The Canonical quote is the most illuminating :-
"As per the Azure T&Cs, Microsoft shares with Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, the contact details of developers launching Ubuntu instances on Azure. These contact details are held in Canonical’s CRM in accordance with privacy rules.
"On February 10th, a new Canonical Sales Representative contacted one of these developers via LinkedIn, with a poor choice of word. In light of this incident, Canonical will be reviewing its sales training and policies."
Re: “I saw that you spun up an Ubuntu image in Azure”
#9I thought this was going to be a Clippy joke, but the truth was much more disturbing. Why is Microsoft sharing this level of information (from a corporate account) with third parties?
Well I think we all know why. They make money from it. The question that’s more relevant is how many of you are going to cancel your Azure accounts and move to a different host after seeing this and will it lose MS enough money to stop the practice. I’m taking bets that not enough will at 50:1 odds.
Re: “I saw that you spun up an Ubuntu image in Azure”
#10> Essentially you're agreeing to a EULA of some sorts, that "offer", and the offer has terms which include a reporting back to publisher. Imagine Oracle using this to capture enterprises that are skirting their license empire.
https://twitter.com/dezren39/status/1359726235929223168?s=20