I flagged this, because it is a dupe of this flagged post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34580360 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34580360 tl;dr: C

I flagged this, because it is a dupe of this flagged post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34580360 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34580360 tl;dr: Canonical isn't keeping security updates hostage. Ubuntu Pro covers Universe packages, which weren't previously covered by official security updates. All the packages in main still get the same security updates as before without requiring Ubuntu Pro.