[s3_gunzel]

Honestly, they do have every right to do as they please.

The issue is that they promised support until 2029 and then went "Nah, screw that, end of 2021, suck it." - that's the issue. They weren't immediately upfront. And this will cost them money because I'm seeing decision makers steer clear of RHEL too.

And they are a little upset that people expected the 10 year support to mean 10 year support. And yes, it’s basically a RHEL clone, but 1) it was community maintained and they bought it, and 2) Ubuntu is in this market with the same business model, so competition and a large, vibrant community shouldn’t really come as a surprise. It’s just the nature of the beast. It comes with the territory of being in open source.

Frankly, it's a bit of a wank to turn around and say "Yeah we'll support this for ten years" then arc up.