Why would anyone use ScamBuntu when you have Debian ? On Fri, 23 Aug 2024 at 11:02, Tim Woodall via GLLUG < [email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Aug 2024, Alan Pope via GLLUG wrote: > > > It's not that they are holding back fixes to packages that were > previously > > available. They simply were not available. Ubuntu Pro is providing > updates > > to packages that previously were not in scope, and so didn't happen. > > > > Unfortunately, the amount of work to update packages and backport fixes > far > > exceeds the number of open source community members to maintain them. > Same > > as many open source projects these days. > > > > What's changed is Canonical are offering this (backporting selected > fixes) > > as a paid service to their enterprise customers. Supporting those paying > > customers by backporting fixes they would never have had before. > Canonical > > is enabling customers to accelerate and focus development effort on > > packages Canonical would previously not have touched. Like most software > > companies, if you pay, you get attention. This isn't exactly new. > > > > They then make that paid work available for free to the Ubuntu community > if > > they enable Ubuntu Pro. > > > > Isn't this the Freexian elts model for Debian? > > AFAIAA, anybody can get the fixed packages. (I haven't tried). The > paying customers get to decide which packages get fixes. > > Tim. > > > -- > GLLUG mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug >
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