So I was informed that prompting for non-free during installation would break unmanned installs of MAAS, which causes problems for our cloud install plans. I'm all for supporting our commitment to non-free, but at the end of the day, we're also committed to ensuring our users have a great experience with Ubuntu. If users are unable to install because their drives aren't recognized, then the entire non-free argument becomes irrelevant. The argument of telling our partners to opensource their drivers, is valid, but will take awhile, e.g. Nvidia on the desktop...and could possibly never occur. I'll leave the decision up to the engineers and release team, but I hope we can come up with something that allows our users the freedom to use Ubuntu on the hardware of their choice.
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