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Dapper-Commercial Repository

ubuntonista: Canonical, Ubuntu’s parent company has announced the dapper-commercial repository, where one will hopefully find packages released by commercial companies (read non-open-source) for use by Ubuntu users. Right now, all the repository has is Opera 9, and RealPlayer 10. Hopefully as time progresses, we will see more software, like, say, Skype, that are useful to users presently, though they are not open source, in this repository.

What would it take to get DB2 into that repository?

Hi Sam, I suppose some of agreement between Canonical and IBM, which allows for Canonical to distribute DB2 free of cost is what is required for this to happen. I don’t know if users/outsiders can influence this process :)

Posted by Ubuntonista at

Nice lazyweb work. We’d be happy to ping Mark Shuttleworth at Ubuntu for you, if that would be of help. shd be no problem

Posted by James Governor at

We’d be happy to ping Mark Shuttleworth at Ubuntu for you, if that would be of help.

That would be great!  I know how to find the right people at IBM to make this happen (presuming, of course, that it is indeed possible).

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