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I'm all for Occam's Razor and don't usually buy corporate bullshit, but this comes to my mind: - Azure is the second largest cloud provider worldwide - Ubuntu

I'm all for Occam's Razor and don't usually buy corporate bullshit, but this comes to my mind: - Azure is the second largest cloud provider worldwide - Ubuntu is probably the most common Linux distro installed in the cloud - We never heard about another episode like this before Now if Canonical was allowing / encouraging this kind of behavior from their sales rep, I think we should have seen it happen in the wild before (like, a thousand times?) already; since it only happened once, I'm inclined to believe them. Also see [1] Now let me think: I'm not OK with Canonical accessing my contact information because I spin up a VM, but I'm also not OK with Microsoft sharing my contact information with Canonical. What's wrong with "let me call them if and when I need?" But I'm European so maybe a little too privacy focused. [1] BTW: let's say 99% Ubuntu VMs are spun to host some boring Wordpress site, nuvelle cuisine blog or leather shoe shop. What's the chance of an Ubuntu sales representative to ever make a sale this way? I guess it must be pretty slim, so he'd have to contact hundreds of potential customers to turn a few sales - something that would quickly get reported if it was a corporate business habit. This reinforces my first impression.

hn_throwaway_99 6y ago
I feel like you're missing the point. I wholeheartedly believe Canonical does not encourage this kind of behavior from their sales rep, but only because it makes it obvious that they're getting data from MS they really have no right to access, when they really intend for it to just stay hidden behind some voluminous terms of service. You know what they say, the definition of "gaffe" is when someone tells the truth.
bialpio 6y ago
We haven't heard about it before because other sales reps didn't admit to knowing that a customer has deployed something, and reached out to the customers under the guise of standard-looking sales pitch that got dismissed as regular kind of spam. That would be my take on it.

hn_throwaway_99 6y ago

I feel like you're missing the point. I wholeheartedly believe Canonical does not encourage this kind of behavior from their sales rep, but only because it makes it obvious that they're getting data from MS they really have no right to access, when they really intend for it to just stay hidden behind some voluminous terms of service. You know what they say, the definition of "gaffe" is when someone tells the truth.

bialpio 6y ago

We haven't heard about it before because other sales reps didn't admit to knowing that a customer has deployed something, and reached out to the customers under the guise of standard-looking sales pitch that got dismissed as regular kind of spam. That would be my take on it.