Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 5th Oct 2006 20:49 UTC, submitted by Eugenia
"Is Ubuntu an operating system? Last week at EuroOSCON, Mark Shuttleworth gave the closing keynote outlining what he believes are the major struggles faced by the open-source/free-software community. During his talk, it became clear that Ubuntu is trying to achieve a radical shift in the software world. Ubuntu isn't trying to be a platform for mass-market application software: it is trying to be the primary provider of both the operating system and all the application software that a typical user would want to run on his machine. Most Linux distributions are like this, and I think it is a dangerous trend that will stifle innovation and usability."
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2005-09-10
http://packages.ubuntu.com/dapper/misc/linux-restricted-modules-2.6...
Here is an example package, it's got all the non-free binary drivers in it and it's in the restricted section. It's not installed by default. I promise you that by default Ubuntu does not configure nVidia cards using the "nvidia" driver.
Although Ubuntu gives you the option of non-free binary drivers it doesn't force them on you.
In your link they mention drdsl, but as you can see...
http://packages.ubuntu.com/dapper/base/drdsl
...it is in the restricted section. It doesn't get installed by default. You have to enable restricted in your sources before it'll ever get near your computer.