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Canonical extends Ubuntu LTS support again - if you pay (www.theregister.com)
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[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 7 points 6 months ago

my guess is someone big wants it and offered to pay enough to fund it, so canonical is just opening up the same support timeframe to anyone willing cough-up some cash.