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I happen to be one of those vendors. I don't really view it as a good thing though. It's not good if everybody has to buy different forks of Kubernetes from vendors.

A point of reference, Amazon EKS only runs 1.10 which will not be supported by the community in 3 months. So not all managed services are really keeping up.

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Ah, you're from Rancher. Great product, but isn't this exactly the problem space you serve?

How many of the K8S vendors are selling distributions vs support plans? Or are they always entangled? And if the community did do LTS, isn't that just shifting the work to open-source maintainers rather than focused and paid vendors?

Yeah having forked k8s will be bad. Back-porting possible security fixes could be tricky and having multiple companies have to do it, would be painful.

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