[elderbarry]

I think you’ve got it the wrong way around.

They can only make these patches because large enterprises wanted them and were willing to pay for them, and they have found a nice way to make the patches available free to you and me. If they made them free for large enterprises too, that funding would go away and we would all lose them.

Also, the extra security work on universe means there are more people who can handle the main repo even better. So even non-Pro users have benefitted.

[gatlin]

You phrase this as if this were a physical necessity, and not a situation purposefully engineered by human beings to be so.

[twiss]

It's not a physical necessity but it is the economic reality. I don't think the people at Canonical, specifically, should be blamed for the fact that we live in a capitalist society.