Most Ubuntu users don't know that Canonical only supports the main repository for free.
To my knowledge, only some comments hidden in /etc/apt/sources.list mention this, but the more honest approach would be to warn all users when they try to `apt install foo` some package from universe/multiverse. Or do it like RHEL with their EPEL repo and disable it by default.
But I guess they would have never gotten this popular if people saw that Ubuntu is only a few thousand packages compared to Debian's tens of thousands.
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Most Ubuntu users don't know that Canonical only supports the main repository for free.
To my knowledge, only some comments hidden in /etc/apt/sources.list mention this, but the more honest approach would be to warn all users when they try to `apt install foo` some package from universe/multiverse. Or do it like RHEL with their EPEL repo and disable it by default.
But I guess they would have never gotten this popular if people saw that Ubuntu is only a few thousand packages compared to Debian's tens of thousands.