the result of this licensing: in the future there's gonna be a shitty free linux variant, and a SaaS premium variant. of course for complete distros this has always been the case, but now we'll get it for the core components.
Indeed. They knew there was risk associated with this, which is why they didn't just plop it into the LTS release. If it isn't working acceptably by the 26.04 release window, it'll just get reverted.
"Interim releases will introduce new capabilities from Canonical and upstream open source projects, they serve as a proving ground for these new capabilities." https://ubuntu.com/about/release-cycle
Seriously, topic like this are either commented as:
1. This is an inevitable problem that is being handled in a sensible manner by competent engineers.
2. X company is stupid and their engineers are stupid only someone as smart as I would be capable of doing it right
It tells a lot about the mental maturity of each participant. Not a single comment is "Maybe I don't know enough about this to voice an informed opinion", although that's probably a good indiucator.
Where it seems like text based forums using upvotes/likes or reactions encourages those who are less inquisitive and/or humble to take up a lot of the atmosphere.
It got me thinking that the internet today has more people on it but fewer forums to engage with technical topics in depth.
