development tools and non-free drviers

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 11:40:10AM +0200, Michael Shigorin wrote:
> I know (and acknowledge) the decision by Canonical not to do that
> -- maybe someone would do kind of business building on top of
> that, being able to choose "practicality" over "principles".
> Principles are good long-term (hence the acknowledgement) but
> "users could strive without hardware drivers which just aren't
> open yet" is hurting right now.  Downloading fglrx is quite 
> a pain for people like mentioned above.

fglrx (and the similar driver for nVidia cards) have both been included on
Ubuntu CDs in packaged, ready-to-run form for ages.

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 - mdz