You need to pay for the last 5, but you can get a few licenses for free.
For many business 3 or 5 years support isn’t enough, they want guarantees they are not going to be forced to updates when they are not ready. Having to only rely on the developer just makes the support side of thing much less painful, when you try to explain to a customer what they are buying.
10? I thought lts is 5y?
But yeah, 10y on a version would have all sorts of versioning issues. Though I have seem some old industrial pcs running on xp for a long time!
It’s 10 with a pro license. And everybody can register 5 machines to pro for free
5 yrs for free is LTS, 10 for “Pro” enterprise subscription ($$$).
You need to pay for the last 5, but you can get a few licenses for free.
For many business 3 or 5 years support isn’t enough, they want guarantees they are not going to be forced to updates when they are not ready. Having to only rely on the developer just makes the support side of thing much less painful, when you try to explain to a customer what they are buying.