<story><title>“I saw that you spun up an Ubuntu image in Azure”</title><url>https://twitter.com/LucaBongiorni/status/1359560585990537216</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>curtis3389</author><text>We all know that you can&amp;#x27;t trust Microsoft, but a lot of people blindly trust Canonical just because they create a Linux distro.&lt;p&gt;I haven&amp;#x27;t trusted Canonical since I noticed their pattern of creating competing alternatives to new Linux standards instead of helping them (Mir &amp;amp; Wayland, Snap &amp;amp; Flatpack, Unity &amp;amp; Gnome 3). It&amp;#x27;d be one thing if they were bringing better ideas and long-term support to their alternatives, but they just seem to be half-baked copies. I appreciate all they&amp;#x27;ve done for the Linux ecosystem, but I&amp;#x27;ll stick with my Debian.</text></item><item><author>raesene9</author><text>The register article on this &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theregister.com&amp;#x2F;2021&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;microsoft_azure_ubuntu_data_sharing&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theregister.com&amp;#x2F;2021&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;microsoft_azure_ubunt...&lt;/a&gt; has responses from Canonical and MS, which shed a bit more light on the situation.&lt;p&gt;The Canonical quote is the most illuminating :-&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;As per the Azure T&amp;amp;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.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;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.&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andagainagain</author><text>Mir and WAyland was because wayland couldn&amp;#x27;t do what they wanted technically.&lt;p&gt;Snap came BEFORE flatpak. Flatpak was the &amp;quot;new competing standard&amp;quot; in that situation.&lt;p&gt;And Gnome shell, quite frankly, sucked. IMO it still sucks, but back then it sucked WAY worse.</text></comment>
<story><title>“I saw that you spun up an Ubuntu image in Azure”</title><url>https://twitter.com/LucaBongiorni/status/1359560585990537216</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>curtis3389</author><text>We all know that you can&amp;#x27;t trust Microsoft, but a lot of people blindly trust Canonical just because they create a Linux distro.&lt;p&gt;I haven&amp;#x27;t trusted Canonical since I noticed their pattern of creating competing alternatives to new Linux standards instead of helping them (Mir &amp;amp; Wayland, Snap &amp;amp; Flatpack, Unity &amp;amp; Gnome 3). It&amp;#x27;d be one thing if they were bringing better ideas and long-term support to their alternatives, but they just seem to be half-baked copies. I appreciate all they&amp;#x27;ve done for the Linux ecosystem, but I&amp;#x27;ll stick with my Debian.</text></item><item><author>raesene9</author><text>The register article on this &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theregister.com&amp;#x2F;2021&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;microsoft_azure_ubuntu_data_sharing&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theregister.com&amp;#x2F;2021&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;microsoft_azure_ubunt...&lt;/a&gt; has responses from Canonical and MS, which shed a bit more light on the situation.&lt;p&gt;The Canonical quote is the most illuminating :-&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;As per the Azure T&amp;amp;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.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;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.&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Debug_Overload</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not sure how many times this needs repeating, but Snap wasn&amp;#x27;t an &amp;quot;alternative&amp;quot; to Flatpak; the latter didn&amp;#x27;t even exist when the former was created.  Many people arguing about this issue don&amp;#x27;t seem to get this.</text></comment>