Those that came up with "Debian LTS" are smart, and by this I mean that they knew exactly how to make profits from companies. These companies will take Debian only to never ever update it, because it's "stable", and only to fear an upgrade that will break everything
So how do you solve that? By making companies pay you to keep on maintaining these OS. Companies would rather cash out for this than having internal costs. It's beautiful.
I stumbled upon this because PHP packages for older versions of Ubuntu are being paywalled now lmao
github.com/oerdnj/deb.sury.org/issues/1922

