Linked by Jordan Spencer Cunningham on Sat 29th Aug 2009 01:21 UTC, submitted by John Mills
"With the Ubuntu Software Store, Canonical is hoping to unify all of the different package management needs into a single, unified interface. While this will not be achieved in Ubuntu 9.10, Canonical is hoping that all of the capabilities of the update-manager, Synaptic, the computer janitor application, gdebi, and other package management-related programs will be merged into Ubuntu Software Store. When this has occurred, it will be easier on the new end-user having to just deal with a single program to provide all of this functionality."
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2006-01-10
Page 2 of the article does say that eventually (Ubuntu version 10.10) they do intend on selling third party software through the 'store'.
What would be nice is for official Ubuntu/Debian repositories or at least support by third party software vendors. For example, you can already get Yum repositories for flash, but no Debian ones? Or software like Alias Wavefront Maya, you have to install through RPMs which can be a pain in a Debian/Ubuntu set up.