Ubuntu technical board: no non-free software by default

The short report from the March 24 meeting of the Ubuntu Technical Board carries this conclusion: "The Technical Board voted unanimously against (0 for, 5 against) including non-free software in the distribution, agreeing that checking a box in the installer by default is equivalent to simply including the software in the default installation. This would have gone against Ubuntu's long standing policy that the only concession is for hardware drivers..." The issue at hand was this bug report requesting that Flash be installed by default.

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