Should Ubuntu include proprietary software?

"Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, arguably the most popular of all Linux distributions, is asking its users what new, proprietary programs they'd like to see as optional software in Ubuntu."Note, I said "new." Ubuntu has actually included proprietary software in the form of hardware driver ...

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