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Most likely yeah :D After all even the other community got burned by CentOS and decided to move to Ubuntu in mass instead of picking a true open-source distro...
Who told you Ubuntu is not a "true open-source distro"? Or is it just illogical feelings-based manufactured hate?
Since when is Ubuntu not open source?
It is, but it's also made by the same company that from time to time likes to add spyware into things... or fork open-source projects and change licenses just because they felt like it. Using Ubuntu on a professional environment has the same risks that using CentOS had, we never know when someone at Canonical will change the license and fuck everyone over.
Well, it's stayed open source for 20 years now.