[michrassena]

So if I'm reading sources.list correctly, universe repositories don't receive security updates from the Ubuntu team. Is it now the case that they do, as long as you've enrolled in Ubuntu Pro?

That makes it sound as if Canonical has taken some kind of responsibility for making these packages secure at a cost for more than five devices.

[josephcsible]

Security patches for universe used to be "best-effort". Now they're intentionally withholding all of them from everyone who's not subscribed to Pro.

[Dylan16807]

Would this patch have existed without the Pro program?

[josephcsible]

I think so. So far, haven't they only cherry-picked existing patches into their packages? Have they written any new patches yet?

[michrassena]

Thanks, that explains things a bit better. It sounds like it's better to not use the universe repository at all in that case. I don't suppose I can just switch over to Debian for those packages, can I?

[michrassena]

So is this in fact a good thing reframed as something negative because Canonical is asking for money?

[leidenfrost]

FOSS advocates: "It's free not as in Free Beer but as in freedom!"

FOSS users: "I'm gonna take it for granted and if someone ever wants to charge me money for anything open source I'm gonna be very angry".

[orionblastar]

Canonical wants to be another Apple. Ubuntu is like Darwin but Ubuntu Pro is like macOS.