[felixc]

Though the comments here so far seem positive, there has also been a lot of negative backlash, primarily out of privacy concerns.

Elliot Murphy posted a comment on LWN clarifying his message (comment here: http://lwn.net/Articles/356947/ attached to parent http://lwn.net/Articles/356911/). The most relevant part is this: "It seems I was overenthusiastic when sending that email to the couchdb dev list, and left out an important word: 'can' be replicated :)"

In other words, this is an optional service that you can choose to use -- no default install is going to send your info to Canonical.

[chanux]

abook with dropbox/ubuntuone for the geek who is concerned about privacy.