Can someone explain to me why the fuck I should pay for installing packages that are available in other distros?
WTF Ubuntu???
Gamma ( @GammaGames@beehaw.org ) English10•2 months agoIt’s free for personal use. It used to be a paid-only service to let you get 10 years of security updates (LTS support is usually only 5)
davel [he/him] ( @davel@lemmy.ml ) English10•2 months agoRight, it’s premium support for corporations that want to stick with a release past its normal expiration date.
The labor required to perform that maintenance costs money, and honestly it’s shit work that you’d have to pay me a lot to convince me to do.
Avid Amoeba ( @avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ) 10•2 months agoThese packages are not available in other distros and you can get them for free for up to 5 machines. Previously you weren’t able to get them at all without paying for corp support.
neidu2 ( @neidu2@feddit.nl ) 4•2 months agoI don’t use ubuntu, so this is news to me. Please clarify by answering this question: The fuck?
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble ( @fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English5•2 months ago-
Ubuntu Pro is free now for personal use
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You’re paying for extra support. This is nothing new. This is how FOSS makes money outside of begging for donations.
neidu2 ( @neidu2@feddit.nl ) 1•2 months agoSo basically they’re following the redhat model? OP made it seem like something very different…
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