I don't think Canonical is going to start developing non-free software. There are things I'd have done differently though were I in charge. Some of the mistakes are repeats and anybody with sense and knowledge of the history of commercial distributions shouldn't have made. In any case. There bigger issue is probably a financial one rather than an ethical one. Most of the software is free. It would be easy enough to fix the ethical problems if the company focused on them.

I think Ubuntu's a bit more tweaked for desktop usage than Debian. I'd be weary of moving Trisquel to a Debian base right now. Maybe in 3 years though. I think at that point Canonical/Ubuntu will have fizzled. This could be really bad or it could be really good. It all depends on how things play out. It may be better for us if they do 'figure it out' financially. The company does contribute substantially to the free software ecosystem.

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