Ubuntu Blog: Introducing the Dapper-Commercial Repository

“It is not the death of freedom in Ubuntu land, but it certainly
is the birth of one kind of freedom–freedom of choice.

“Canonical, Ubuntu’s parent company has announced the
dapper-commercial repository, where one will hopefully find
packages released by commercial companies (read non-open-source)
for use by Ubuntu users. Right now, all the repository has is Opera
9, and RealPlayer 10. Hopefully as time progresses, we will see
more software, like, say, Skype, that are useful to users
presently, though they are not open source, in this
repository…”

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