Creeped-out dev spins up an Ubuntu VM on Azure only to be immediately approached by a Canonical sales rep

Creeped-out dev spins up an Ubuntu VM on Azure only to be immediately approached by a Canonical sales rep

An Azure customer has expressed outrage after finding himself on the receiving end of an unexpected LinkedIn message from Ubuntu last night.


The user, Luca Bongiorni, had spun up an instance of Ubuntu on an Azure corporate subscription in order to evaluate some tooling. Sensibly, the subscription is used as a sandbox for the purpose of testing.

Upon clicking "Add new VM", the first option was Ubuntu 18.04, according to Bongiorni, which he selected in order to get his Linux kicks. Shortly after, however, a message turned up from an Enterprise Development representative at Ubuntu with the ominous phrase: "I saw that you spun up an Ubuntu image in Azure" and offering to be a point of contact.



I would not have deployed that ..

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