I'm actually kind of surprised they weren't before. In any case the old policy then I think was better. If they were going to improve upon it (make it easier) they should have fixed the bugs which existed after a fresh install or where the distro was terribly out of date (updates) and the user attempted to install a non-free program. Then they could even hide or minimise the non-free software by default without as much criticism.

I would like to know what non-free software Ubuntu is releasing (and developing). That puts a real damper on any light that shown through before. It's one more reason not to use the distribution if you care at all about freedom.

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