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edited Apr 13, 2017 at 12:25

Yes, that is supported, and if you look on the site you'll see lots of questions and answers about running proprietary software in Ubuntu.

There is nothing the FAQ the FAQ to prohibit proprietary software questions, and the FAQ says the FAQ says:

We welcome questions about:

...

Running third-party applications on Ubuntu.

A couple things to keep in mind:

There's proprietary software included in Ubuntu, like the Fluendo codecs, and proprietary drivers provided in the Restricted repository component (see Repositories/Ubuntu). Canonical also runs the Partner repository which provides mostly proprietary software (such as Skype and Flash).
Proprietary and commercial don't mean the same thing. Proprietary software is non-free (as in freedom). Commercial software is software that is developed and released by a company, typically with an associated profit motive (but this software is sometimes both free and gratis). Commercial and proprietary overlap, but there's plenty of free (as in freedom) commercial software, and plenty of non-commercial proprietary software.

Yes, that is supported, and if you look on the site you'll see lots of questions and answers about running proprietary software in Ubuntu.

There is nothing the FAQ to prohibit proprietary software questions, and the FAQ says:

We welcome questions about:

...

Running third-party applications on Ubuntu.

A couple things to keep in mind:

There's proprietary software included in Ubuntu, like the Fluendo codecs, and proprietary drivers provided in the Restricted repository component (see Repositories/Ubuntu). Canonical also runs the Partner repository which provides mostly proprietary software (such as Skype and Flash).
Proprietary and commercial don't mean the same thing. Proprietary software is non-free (as in freedom). Commercial software is software that is developed and released by a company, typically with an associated profit motive (but this software is sometimes both free and gratis). Commercial and proprietary overlap, but there's plenty of free (as in freedom) commercial software, and plenty of non-commercial proprietary software.

Yes, that is supported, and if you look on the site you'll see lots of questions and answers about running proprietary software in Ubuntu.

There is nothing the FAQ to prohibit proprietary software questions, and the FAQ says:

We welcome questions about:

...

Running third-party applications on Ubuntu.

A couple things to keep in mind:

There's proprietary software included in Ubuntu, like the Fluendo codecs, and proprietary drivers provided in the Restricted repository component (see Repositories/Ubuntu). Canonical also runs the Partner repository which provides mostly proprietary software (such as Skype and Flash).
Proprietary and commercial don't mean the same thing. Proprietary software is non-free (as in freedom). Commercial software is software that is developed and released by a company, typically with an associated profit motive (but this software is sometimes both free and gratis). Commercial and proprietary overlap, but there's plenty of free (as in freedom) commercial software, and plenty of non-commercial proprietary software.

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created Mar 22, 2013 at 8:51

Yes, that is supported, and if you look on the site you'll see lots of questions and answers about running proprietary software in Ubuntu.

There is nothing the FAQ to prohibit proprietary software questions, and the FAQ says:

We welcome questions about:

...

Running third-party applications on Ubuntu.

A couple things to keep in mind:

There's proprietary software included in Ubuntu, like the Fluendo codecs, and proprietary drivers provided in the Restricted repository component (see Repositories/Ubuntu). Canonical also runs the Partner repository which provides mostly proprietary software (such as Skype and Flash).
Proprietary and commercial don't mean the same thing. Proprietary software is non-free (as in freedom). Commercial software is software that is developed and released by a company, typically with an associated profit motive (but this software is sometimes both free and gratis). Commercial and proprietary overlap, but there's plenty of free (as in freedom) commercial software, and plenty of non-commercial proprietary software.