[sf-lug] Ubuntu 18.04 to have 10 year support span

[aaronco36]

Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever at dslextreme.com> wrote at [1]

> This is great for people happy with Ubuntu or its spins.
> Link of reference [2]
>
> Lot of other information in the article.

OTOH, ITPro Today's article by Christine Hall entitled 'Ubuntu's "Bionic 
Beaver" Promised a 10 Year Life' [3] has a bit of a twist on the news of 
that 10 year support span.

A more telling quote from the ITPro Today article could be the following:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ quoting from [3] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Shuttleworth is probably playing a bit with smoke and mirrors here, 
however, and there's likely not as much "new" here as it might seem. 
According to Canonical's website, traditional support with free security 
and bug fixes for Ubuntu 18.04 still runs out in five years[4], or in 
April 2023. After that, you'll need to write a check to Canonical to keep 
your machines safe and secure.
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IMHO, I myself rather think that with Canonical still aiming for an 
Initial Public Offering (IPO) sometime in 2019 and with the recent 
announcement of IBM's acquisition of Red Hat [5], Shuttleworth's move to 
enact that 10 year lifespan for Ubuntu (among other moves) could've been 
made more to gear up his private-equity companies & advisors for the 
latters' inevitable demands for a speedy Return On Investment (ROI) once 
the IPO *does* become fully in place.

Am wondering if as an intended|unintended by-product of Canonical's IPO, 
Shuttleworth would ever revert to calling Free software zealots 
"antisocial muppets who love to hate", similar to what he did ~1.5yrs ago 
at [6] ??

-A


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[1]http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2018q4/013528.html
[2]https://www.zdnet.com/article/mark-shuttleworth-reveals-ubuntu-18-04-will-get-a-10-year-support-lifespan
[3]https://www.itprotoday.com/linux/ubuntus-bionic-beaver-promised-10-year-life
[4]https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases
[5]http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2018q4/013498.html
[6]https://www.zdnet.com/article/ubuntus-shuttleworth-free-software-zealots-are-antisocial-muppets-who-love-to-hate/
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