• @AProfessional
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    6 months ago

    Canonical already maintains security patches for paying customers so they aren’t actually doing any extra work, but putting it behind a subscription gives them an option to start charging more for desktops, gives clear cost for server use, and maybe is marketing for “look at the premium work we do”.

    • @TootSweet
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      66 months ago

      Seems really dodgy to me making your business model holding security features hostage for either money or sign-ups, honestly.

      Kindof like charging people for vaccines against deadly diseases or something.

      But then again, my craw may be extra susceptible to sticking when it comes to such things.

      • @iopq
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        36 months ago

        How do you think research for vaccines is funded? Someone pays for vaccines for deadly diseases eventually

        • @TootSweet
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          6 months ago

          Preferably taxpayers. Not that that part of the analogy relates to Ubuntu.

          • @iopq
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            26 months ago

            In any case, the company who makes the vaccines doesn’t pay it. Ubuntu could make the argument you get the security upgrades if the government wants to pay for them

      • @[email protected]
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        26 months ago

        From my look at it, Ubuntu is making it clear that they guarantee support for 10 years, rather than just the standard 4 of LTS releases. And they are also guaranteeing compliance for enterprise uses, saving the paperwork load and time. This could make Ubuntu Pro attractive for enterprises and the IT department. Everyone wants to limit the paperwork checks. Us plebes, can make do with the free standard 4 years of LTS support if that’s what you want.

        I’m quite sure that any distro that offers enterprise solutions is doing similar things just for the money. RedHat does it for sure. But us plebes don’t ever see it because we use Fedora instead.

    • silly goose meekah
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      26 months ago

      Also making people familiar with your system makes it more likely that they’ll want to use it at work, too