Ubuntu commercial repository
Now you can install Opera, Real Player easily if you wish: http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2006/07/08/introducing-the-dapper-commercial-rep... You can debate the merits of whether having closed source software in Linux is a good thing or an evil thing but this is available anyway... -- Ian McDonald Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4 Blog: http://imcdnzl.blogspot.com WAND Network Research Group Department of Computer Science University of Waikato New Zealand
Ian McDonald wrote:
Now you can install Opera, Real Player easily if you wish:
http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2006/07/08/introducing-the-dapper-commercial-rep ository/
You can debate the merits of whether having closed source software in Linux is a good thing or an evil thing but this is available anyway...
I'm not sure why this is different to multiverse? I guess Canonical has had to seek special permission to distribute these things, but they could have done so under the guise of Ubuntu? Craig
I'm not sure why this is different to multiverse? I guess Canonical has had to seek special permission to distribute these things, but they could have done so under the guise of Ubuntu?
Possibly liability issues or maybe there was payment involved? But more likely as you say the distribution license. -- Ian McDonald Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4 Blog: http://imcdnzl.blogspot.com WAND Network Research Group Department of Computer Science University of Waikato New Zealand
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