Proprietary Software and Linux. Good, Bad or Somewhere In-betwee...

Courtesy Linux Magazine: Top Stories  Thu, 01/21/2010 - 08:24

Canonical is looking into selling proprietary software like Adobe's Photoshop and Apple's iTunes within its distribution, Ubuntu.

This would undoubtedly be helpful for certain end users wanting to switch to Linux, but is it good for free software in the long run?

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