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Re:Ubuntu Will Now Have Amazon Ads Pre-Installed by fromhet on Saturday September 22, 2012 @06:05PM (#4559153)
That would make it very non-free software. And that is what ubuntu is trying to not be.
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Re:Ubuntu Will Now Have Amazon Ads Pre-Installed by ps258 on Sunday September 23, 2012 @03:27AM (#4560305)
You can sell free software. It's free as in freedom not as in free beer.

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html

> You can charge nothing, a penny, a dollar, or a billion dollars.

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Re:Ubuntu Will Now Have Amazon Ads Pre-Installed by kintamanimatt on Sunday September 23, 2012 @07:34AM (#4560653)
If you're referring to the price, well, that was covered by another comment.

Ubuntu's full of non-free software and binary blobs. This is why it pretty much works out of the box. There's little fucking around with drivers, non-free codecs, etc.

In any event, adding non-free "premium" features doesn't make the operating system itself any less free.

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