Comment 1 for bug 393596

Canonical is a business and can't be expected to openly discuss all the factors behind the decision it makes; I wish it were otherwise, but it simply cannot be. We can explain the results of those discussions in general terms, of course, and have done so, at http://dev.launchpad.net/OpenSourcing and on the aforementioned blog post. Filing this bug report doesn't materially change that discussion (which was already going on in those other forums); it just changes the format :-). Ubuntu is just as Free as it has always been.