Idea for expanded support of some non-free software

Jeff Waugh jeff.waugh at canonical.com
Mon Nov 29 22:26:25 CST 2004


<quote who="Philippe Landau">

> of course you could install it on your development computers, test it,
> make it work well, provide scripts guiding through the legal download from
> their original sources, and facilitate optional integration in the ubuntu
> desktop.

Remember - you could also do this. :-) Spending time supporting proprietary
software would detract from our ability to provide a great supportable and
*Free* OS for everyone, which is our main objective.

Again, where we can legally include these kinds of things in multiverse, we
will. But we don't commit a huge amount of time to unsupported software,
especially if it's not Free.

- Jeff

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