Canonical will distribute commercial closed software via repositories

News on the official site states that it is now in the Ubuntu repositories will be available in trial-version of a package for virtualization Parallels Workstation for Linux, but buy a full version of the package will be in shop.canonical.com, where previously only sold souvenirs with symbols of Ubuntu.

And at the moment, in the Ubuntu repositories is closed software, but the case with Parallels seems to be the first, when Canonical will promote the sale of private third-party software vendors.

8 February 2008 | , , canonical, news, package, products, ubuntu, virtualization, website

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