A rough translation of the principle of Ubuntu is "humanity towards others". Another translation could be: "the belief in a universal bond of sharing that connects all humanity".
A rough translation of the principle of Ubuntu is "humanity towards others". Another translation could be: "the belief in a universal bond of sharing that connects all humanity".
First screenshot is from here.
Second screenshot is from me updating an Ubuntu 22.04 LTS system today.
Post title is from https://web.archive.org/web/20130223104643/https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/about-ubuntu/C/about-ubuntu-name.html via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_philosophy
Okay... I don't even like Ubuntu, I'm still pissed at snaps, but I'm going to call it bullshit. OP is being at the very least disingenuous, if not worse (witch hunting).
Ubuntu Pro is a subscription system with the following features:
- Extended security maintenance - 10 years of backported features, because enterprise hates dist-upgrade. By then human users upgraded their systems at least once, probably way more.
- Live-patching kernel updates - because enterprise hates restart downtime. If it's your personal machine you simply reboot after installing a new kernel, no biggie.
- "Compliance and hardening" - basically a way to ensure that a machine follows a bunch of security protocols irrelevant for human users, and exchanging usability for less surface area in a way that human users wouldn't want.
Are you noticing the pattern here? It's junk that enterprise cares about, but you don't. Canonical is milking corporations.
To make the comparison with airbag vests even worse, Pro is free for personal use, up to 5 machines. So it's more like Canonical is saying "since we know that stupid bizniz bureaucracy prevents them from regularly replacing airbag vests, we're willing to repair them for a price. For free if you're a random nobody, by the way."
And no, it does not contradict the Ubuntu principle, as your title implies.
And since I can't be arsed to rebuke this shite being cross-posted to !latestagecapitalism@lemmygrad.ml, I'll do it here. (I apologise to the others for posting politics here.)
The airbag vest part alone would be a good example of late capitalism; the business is clearly seeking to add surplus value to the goods. And since that surplus value cannot come from paying less for the labour of the workers, it comes from the buyers/"subscribers" - transforming the goods into a service, and commodifying personal security.
Ubuntu Pro is not this, as I've shown above. But even if it worked somehow like you're implying that it does, through both threads (i.e. you don't have ubuntu pro = you don't get security updates), it would still not be an example of late stage capitalism: security updates are a service by nature, requiring additional labour to be produced, specially when you're backporting a patch to ancient software.
Memes are cool. Blatant misinformation in the form of a meme to manufacture outrage, not so much.
huh? what is the misinformation here?
Even though this has been explained many times since the whole hullabaloo, I'll assume you're genuinely unaware and/or perhaps got rage-farmed by someone else's meme. The current meme implies that Ubuntu/Canonical have actively disabled safety/security features in the form of withholding security updates, unless you pay for Ubuntu Pro subscription. The Ubuntu package support hasn't changed with the introduction of Ubuntu Pro. The packages that were supported by Canonical prior to this are supported the same way today. The packages that were community supported prior to this are supported the same way today. Without Ununtu Pro. There is net new support by Canonical that covers community-supported packages too which is available with Ubuntu Pro subscription. Therefore Canonical hasn't removed any existing, previously free security support. In addition, this newly added security support is available for free for up to 5 machines and it lasts for 10 years.
More info here: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-pro-faq/34042
Down vote away, I don't care, but they really aren't though.
Pretty big difference between buying a thing that stops working if you don't have an active subscription, and using an old LTS and being given the choice of paying for extended support or the free upgrade to the new LTS
Pretty big difference between buying a thing that stops working if you don't have an active subscription, and using an old LTS and being given the choice of paying for extended support if you’re a corporation, signing up for a free “subscription” if you’re not, or the free upgrade to the new LTS
FTFY, it’s an even bigger difference when the extended support is free for end users.
I'm no fan of Ubuntu, but maintaining an LTS release and backporting security updates is actual ongoing work. Most distros don't even provide an LTS release for that reason.
Ubuntu Pro is free up to 5 machines
My update told me as much. OP's likely did too. But it is usually a lot harder to manufacture outrage when you have a full picture and manufacturing outrage is the best way to get exposure on social media.
For now
Wow haven't tried Ubuntu in years wtf happened
Its universe, the community repo. Basically you can pay them to also supply you with community updates, a service. The official repos stay untouched.
People always want free software, but free ≠ free beer?
Oh that actually sounds cool haha thanks 👍
If you happen to be new to Linux, do yourself a favor and start on Linux Mint.
There are no snaps, you can still install pretty much everything you can with Ubuntu, the Cinnamon Desktop is nice (better than Gnome in my opinion, but then again, I haven't used Gnome that much) and you don't have to deal with ads in the terminal. Mint is the distro most people should start on.
They even, at some point, mocked their Reddit community there.
Weird. Here I am sitting here with Ubuntu Pro and not paying a dime.
It's real?!
Those are community maintained packages in the first place. Canonical offers extended security updates (plus after the 5 year LTS EOL) for a fee, with 5 machines for free for non-commercial uses.
Very legit IMO
Isn’t Ubuntu Pro just Debian?
It isn't.
Meh, how's this different from RH?
Ubuntu is completely free lol. This is only about the community repo. Like if RHEL would also support EPEL which they dont
Meh, how’s this different from RH?
It took Canonical about four times as long (twenty years vs five) to start doing this.
Dissatisfaction with RedHat's introduction of RHN (in 2000) was arguably a significant factor contributing to Ubuntu's rapid growth when it was first released (in 2004).
I would go so far as to say it was THE key factor to Ubuntu's initial success in 2004ish.
Meanwhile Red hat takes several weeks to patch on mission critical systems
Theres a reason this is the distro all the corpos push and include with everything. I use arch btw.
Its universe, the community repo. Basically you can pay them to also supply you with community updates, a service. The official repos stay untouched.
People always want free software, but free ≠ free beer?
Ubuntu is officially malware.
Okay tbf this is meant for companies that need to meet specific requirements like government privacy regulations, which change every year and need to be actively maintained or else you get in legal trouble.
Its universe, the community repo. Basically you can pay them to also supply you with community updates, a service. The official repos stay untouched.
People always want free software, but free ≠ free beer?
Okay tbf this is meant for companies that need to meet specific requirements like government privacy regulations, which change every year and need to be actively maintained or else you get in legal trouble.
Yeah you pretty much would only ever need to install these updates to
libavcodecandimagemagickfor regulatory compliance reasons, or maybe if you wanted to be able to safely load video or image files found on the internet without being subject to compromise by widely-available exploits for vulnerabilities that were published and fixed upstream last year.