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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Also, I doubt free software lunitacs are 1) running ubuntu or 2) part of ubuntu's target market.
I would not consider myself a "free software lunatic", but I do
1) use ubuntu and successfully push its use across client companies
2) am a fan of Canonical and part of ubuntu's target market(whatever that is).
However, if Canonical starts to actively promote a culture of $1.99 downloads over a community open source model, then
1) I will NO LONGER use ubuntu and encourage my clients to drop it
2) Canonical's current Open Source community "target market" will run from it faster than you can say "RedHat Linux 9 Discontinued".
I hope this is not Canonical's intention. "
The bigger issue is all the proprietary stuff that's free as in money to Windows/Mac users but companies won't write a simple wrapper for Linux because they might leak their "iP" Things like Flash, printer drivers, video card drivers, Google Earth, etc, etc... It would be nice to have a collected place to get them, but companies will only do that if they can have some "stake" in the distribution... As soon as they see BillyBobsHackedprinterDrivers on the net they pull the proper drivers down too... Ubuntu needs a friendly place to stick this stuff... and a place for PAID software would help things along too. (nothing brings devs like a chance for $$$, look at the Apple App store) Things that have patents and MUST be paid for to distribute... DVD and media Codex, etc. as well as still in print games and apps like Maya or Oracle that are painful for average Linux users to install.