Ian McDonald wrote:

Now you can install Opera, Real Player easily if you wish:

http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2006/07/08/introducing-the-dapper-commercial-rep ository/

You can debate the merits of whether having closed source software in Linux is a good thing or an evil thing but this is available anyway...

I'm not sure why this is different to multiverse? I guess Canonical has had to seek special permission to distribute these things, but they could have done so under the guise of Ubuntu?

Craig