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How do snaps make money for Canonical?
There's no way to install a snap except through Canonical's snap store (or snap store proxy, which gets them from Canonical's snap store).
They're charging for kernel security live patches. They charge for LTS. If they get enough buy-in re: snaps, they're going to do the only thing a for-profit company can do.
Red Hat and SUSE also charge for extended support, it's literally the only fucking way to make money off of a distro
Canonical still offers 5 years standard at the enormous cost of 0.0$
Are you under the impression that they write all the patches?
No, but they actually do write some patches and they also do all the menial work, testing and verification to keep a piece of software serviceable for 10 years
If you think it's easy, go and attempt it yourself. The greatest cure for people talking shit about needed effort, according to my experience....
I'm not gonna speak for Canonical but snaps enable commercial vendors to more readily ship their apps on the Ubuntu platform.