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Canonical recently introduced a “Pro” subscription - I’m not sure how sources are available from that. There really aren’t rebuilders for Ubuntu in the same wa
by jzb 3y ago
Canonical recently introduced a “Pro” subscription - I’m not sure how sources are available from that.
There really aren’t rebuilders for Ubuntu in the same way, and Canonical has a very different place in the industry. I think there was a thing a few years ago about Canonical going after some of the distros based on Ubuntu, but I think that was over pointing directly to Canonical’s repos (rather than hosting their own binaries), which is reasonable.
If Canonical were a public company or owned by one and had a multi-billion dollar business being undermined by clones and freeloaders… I think you’d see similar actions.
- the_why_of_y 3y agoI got the impression that sources are not available to the general public. See for example this security update, the versions back to 20.04 have links to launchpad, the older versions have no link but say "Available with Ubuntu Pro". https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6239-1 https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6239-1