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Summary: Future versions of Ubuntu omit linkage to Amazon are are illegal to host in AWS, as per Mark Shuttleworth's new vision

"WE have lost confidence in Amazon," said Mark Shuttleworth at a press conference in London this morning. "Not only is its owner now running the Washington Post to cleanse the reputation of the CIA but Amazon is also the CIA's partner of choice.

"We cannot maintain a relationship by which Amazon is harvesting the IP addresses of Ubuntu users and what they are searching for, let alone host their data and playlists on Amazon's servers. Effective immediately, we break up with Amazon and we will no longer enable Amazon to host Ubuntu virtual machines, to which they have back door access inside the datacentres."

“Putting Ubuntu in virtual machines hosted by Microsoft makes as much sense as putting Huawei routers inside the Pentagon.”
      --Mark ShuttleworthMark Shuttleworth recently experienced or at least witnessed what it's to be abused and witch-hunted by secret services and police and he then made the first step towards the goal of abolishing Amazon, but these latest moves sure are likely to cause controversy, for fears that Mr. Shuttleworth is becoming radical and Amazon-hostile like Richard Stallman.

Bloggers, however, have welcomed Shuttleworth's policy, noting that "the controversial ‘search everything’ home scope is gone which was sending data to Canonical servers and instead it will become the ‘Application scope’ which will show applications. It will show installed apps as well as apps available for download – makes perfect sense."

In other news, Shuttleworth is beginning to consider removing all Ubuntu instances from Azure by rewriting software licences. "PRISM," he said, "has shown us that Microsoft is not just complying with the NSA; Microsoft is leading the NSA towards a state of mass surveillance. Putting Ubuntu in virtual machines hosted by Microsoft makes as much sense as putting Huawei routers inside the Pentagon." ⬆

Happy April First news.