It's not about 2.6Mb storage space taken. It's about what those 2.6Mb of logic does, how transparent the whole process is and how many potential security vulnerabilities it may introduce due to not having one transparent entrypoint for activation. You are exactly following Microsoft way to telemetry, where there are multiple toggles around the system but telemetry it's already so deeply integrated that you never can be sure if it was completely disabled.
You do benefit not only from your paying customers base but from whole open source community work up to day. Including this portal and all feedback passed automatically/manually from users which run Ubuntu on their hardware. So saying that you don't care about non paying customers seems a bit arrogant here. Isn't the fact that you have seperate restricted repository backed on the same concept of lack of full trust ? There is whole group of people who e.g don't have Nvidia software on their hardware and they have a chocice, why they shouldn't have the same choice with Canonical software ? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to ubuntu-meta in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1930914 Title: ubuntu-minimal depends on ubuntu-advantage-tools Status in ubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Bug description: This is counter to #1566183 There is no reason to enforce desktop users who manage machine on their own to install ubuntu-advantage- tools, especially when this is 'minimal' version. This should include only essential packages to make the OS functional ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04 Package: ubuntu-minimal 1.450.2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-73.82-lowlatency 5.4.106 Uname: Linux 5.4.0-73-lowlatency x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.18 Architecture: amd64 CasperMD5CheckResult: skip Date: Fri Jun 4 18:54:56 2021 InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-01-29 (491 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-MATE 19.10 "Eoan Ermine" - Release amd64 (20191017) SourcePackage: ubuntu-meta UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2020-06-27 (342 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-meta/+bug/1930914/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
