I don't care because I just want something that works.

But no, while it doesn't concern me to the extent it does Roy, I sympathise and
I do think it's to say the least rather offhand of Canonical. Something akin to
Microsoft bundling IE with Windows as a Netscape killer.

it's not that Canonical is offering optional extras for a (monetary)
price - that would be perfectly fair. It's that these cost-free but proprietary
extra features are NOT presented as optional, and to make matters worse, at
install time you may have unchecked a box to say you specifically don't want
anything whose source code is not available to the community, and yet you get it anyway.

It's not a case of paying for what you get and getting what you pay for, it's
more the insidious encroach of something proprietary sneaking in under the
covers of something claiming to be entirely open.