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Mention clearly if a frimware update or a driver is proprietary and that the updates are not controlled by the community

Open moonmehta opened this issue 7 years ago • 1 comments

Right now, there is no mention that a firmware update or a driver is proprietary or not. This can misleading to people who do now want proprietary drivers on their system.

Plus, since the support for these proprietary drivers is not controlled by the open source community (in this case, Ubuntu), it should be mentioned that the updates can't be trusted as a result. Here is how Ubuntu's Software & Updates (software-properties-gtk) does it:

screenshot from 2017-05-18 14 20 58

moonmehta avatar May 18 '17 08:05 moonmehta