Comment 1 for bug 423856

I believe I have heard rather strong statements from Canonical that Ubuntu will never have "phone home" type data collection hooks to find out how many people are running Ubuntu. Though the overt intent of this proposal may be philanthropic, this sounds suspiciously like such a feature.

I would have loved to put such a hook in the Ubuntu images I've built for EC2 to find out the amount of usage they get, but did not so so because of the Ubuntu philosophy in this regard.