Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 27th Nov 2007 21:09 UTC, submitted by diegocg
Canonical is announcing the availability of PPA: a Launchpad-integrated free service which allows anyone to get 1 GB of space to upload whatever software they want. Launchpad will compile it automatically and will set up an apt repository with your package to anyone who wants to use it. Aditionally, PPAs offer bug reporting and translation services.
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2005-07-08
Proprietary software isn't a growth market, it's a hold-over from a bygone era that's slowly fading away. The new software products being adopted by businesses and consumers are overwhelmingly free software. It's not a market worth chasing. I'm content to let the proprietary software vendors chase us as the major free software platforms continue to gain marketshare.
There will be Adobe Photoshop for Linux. The only reason it's taken this long is because Adobe is hard at work overhauling their entire content creation portfolio to support their AIR framework, and while it will be proprietary software, I'm fairly confident that they will ship Linux packages.