What's this landscape stuff about?

[Rashkae]

Siggy Brentrup wrote:
> Hi List,
> 
> it has only been some minutes ago that I first logged in remotely to
> my Ubuntu laptop and to my surprise found sort of commercial
> advertising from Canonical for Landscape in my /etc/motd (cf
> attachment).  I can't tell how this got in, most probably on some
> upgrade.
> 
> IMNSHO this is a new quality of SPAM!
> 
> @canonical: please stop this immediately or you'll lose a
>             prospective contributor.
>             Sorry, on your contact page there is no appropriate
>             email address, I'm guessing expecting some bounces.
> 
> Extremely upset
>   Siggy
> 

I think getting upset over the inclusion of an URL in motd is over the
top.  But I am interested by the satistics.  Presumably there is a
daemon or cron.? job that is being used to gather those and update the
motb... really not the kind of thing I would want installed without so
much as a by your leave.