"ohh i have money. I can buy into the game and finally have more installs than Debian"
Let's see how that plays out later, since we all know this boot shenanigans do nothing it advertised (virus, security) and only serve to harden the installation of non windows os
I'm not saying I'm happy about any of this, but complaining about the money makes you sound exactly as credible as someone calling Ubuntu suckers because they pay for SSL certificates. (Especially because SSL has all the same issues of root keys owned by rapacious trusted third parties, and a security benefit that isn't obviously that big, these days...)
now back to the sucker part. thanks to ubuntu, everyone now instead of complaining or not buying hardware because free drivers aren't provided, will just and gladly use binary ones. and then complain that linux is unstable. i know it's a fine line to walk since otherwise they will just complain linux is not compatible with anything... but i think the later is fixable.