> An Ubuntu SSO account is required to create the first user on an Ubuntu Core installation.
They just keep flinging shit at nothing and hoping to hit a wall they can build a gate in.
They're trying to boil the frog slowly with Snap on the Server/Desktop branches.
There is no possible genuine motive for these maneuverings to be in the position of gatekeeper.
If anyone at Canonical is listening, you should be aware it doesn't matter how slowly and carefully you approach this, or how you justify it, the first time I'm forced to kiss the ring to get my software to work, your software is gone from any system I own or manage, immediately and forever.
You're not going to get within a thousand miles of monetizing the ecosystem by gatekeeping it -- the moment you even so much as assert the position of gatekeeper you're trying to create for yourselves you're dead to me.