[CoLoCo] Canonical To Start Offering Commercial Software Via Aptitude

[David L. Willson]

I'm not sure this is new.  I've been installing VMware Server out of the
Partner repo for a long while now.  Or do you mean that they are putting
proprietary into 'main'?  That would suck.

On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 11:28 -0500, TheZorch wrote:
> Parallels will be the first of what will soon be many
> proprietary/commercial apps for Linux available via Aptitude in
> Ubuntu.  Some Ubuntu purists might not like the idea of Canonical
> offering commercial software for Ubuntu after being against
> proprietary-anything for so long but I see this as a good step
> forward.  Good commercial apps (legal commercial DVD playback anyone?)
> and an easy way to get them is what Linux needs in order to really
> grab the attention of your average user who is considering a switch
> from Windows.  If 2008 is truly to be the year that Linux finally
> becomes mainstream on the desktop this is an important step in that
> direction.
> 
> http://www.news.com/Canonical-distributes-Parallels-via-desktop-update/2100-1012_3-6229395.html
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