[chomp]

I don't understand the post title. Ondřej does this in his free time, you're not entitled to his labor. LTS only lasts 5 years, you shouldn't be building out new systems on such an out of date OS. If your business processes depend on 18.04, then paid support makes sense.

[gettodachoppa]

No one is entitled to his labor. But they are entitled to complain about a dick move. After doing his labor, he's choosing to do extra labor (going out of his way to delete old packages) for the sole reason of preventing people from accessing the packages he already built and deployed previously. This would be like Python foundation deleting the download links for Python 2.7 from python.org, or npm unpublishing old packages. Why?

And FYI, not everyone has a need to stay on a supported distro. We don't all run public-facing web services. A system on a secure LAN could run for the next 200 years and it wouldn't matter that Canonical or PHP stopped releasing security updates.

Unless there's a size limit to his Launchpad repos I'm not aware of, he simply has no excuse other than being an arrogant authoritarian.