Which seems completely fair. This is a silly article and too many comments here aren’t understanding this.
If a business wants 10 years of support then yeah they should pay as it’s cheaper than upgrading.
For personal use just goddamn update after 5 years geeze lol.
Edit: this person’s blog post just misunderstands the situation. See here for actual release info and when ESM starts for each release. 5 years standard as of 24.04.
And you can get the extra 5 years for free anyway with a free subscription for up to 5 machines.
Did they misinterpret the VM limitation, or does the personal license not cover VMs?