Automatix is wrong conceptually.

Ubuntu should not _need_ a helper script to install apps. Those that are aware of this and willing to do something about it are the same people who are responsible for Feisty's codec-and-driver-installing features. We can only hope Ubuntu will develop further in this area so that helper scripts like aut'x can be lost in the junkyards of history.

It is the wrong approach of the automatix team, which gives more importance to building their own ego and having a separate fanclub just for themselves, than to the prosperity of the project as a whole. This, IMO, is the reason they've never been willing (or able?) to communicate with Ubuntu and cooperate with it to produce a better product overall.

What I say is valid today. However, before Feisty, it was the policies that made including the current features impossible, and that was a raison d'être for similar scripts. These policies have since been re-thunk, and all the effort going into Automatix and similar is utterly wasted.