They aren't. Ubuntu sells commercial support and you bought it when you spun up the image. Ubuntu has the right to know basic details about the customer.
> Nor do I find charming the belligerent lack of any magical syntactic sugar for `self`. Does Python force you to pass it as an argument to make some kind of clever point? Are there psychotic devs out there who call it something other than `self`? Yuck!
If you weren't an ignoramous you would understand it can be something else, like klass.
It's a good point. Imagine if one of those open source projects that Elastic uses licensed there own little bit of code under the SSL. Elastic would flip out.