To be fair, if they couldn't make the decision to use a non-paid distro, would you trust them to be able to manage the updates, the ABI compatibility breakages, and so on once every year or two?
But again, paying for the distribution does not free you from the sysadmin duties
Even worse: because of the long "supported" duration, the common mindset is "fire and forget". After all, why would we care ? That stuff will be "supported" for 10 years, we'll be long gone by then. And when you have high turn-over rate, you hit the champion's title : every thing is legacy, nothing is managed, every thing is crap
But again, paying for the distribution does not free you from the sysadmin duties
Even worse: because of the long "supported" duration, the common mindset is "fire and forget". After all, why would we care ? That stuff will be "supported" for 10 years, we'll be long gone by then. And when you have high turn-over rate, you hit the champion's title : every thing is legacy, nothing is managed, every thing is crap