Comments on: Ubuntu Software Store Generates Questions

By: TJL

TJL — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:45:39 +0000

I think the “store” is a great idea. if there was a good legal channel for proprietary software developers to sell software to ubuntu users then hardware manufactures might take more notice to linux driver support. Proprietary software will never kill open-source software. Open source software just forces proprietary software to be better. And whats wrong will better software for linux? Most open source programs have donation boxes anyways this might help them gain donations.

By: Leomar

Leomar — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 05:07:45 +0000

Agree on what you said: ” After all, Canonical deserves to make money. ”
Obviously they will sell apps in some release, and there is nothing bad about it as it is not the OS but some apps, it could really enhace the comunity, the developers make some profit, etc.
In conclusion I love the idea of an app store in ubuntu i don’t see any problem only progress

By: Oltrelinux.com » Ubuntu Software Store diventa Software Center

Oltrelinux.com » Ubuntu Software Store diventa Software Center — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:56:35 +0000

[...] l’Ubuntu Software Store ha fatto la sua comparsa in una delle alpha di Ubuntu Karmic, le polemiche non sono mancate. In effetti la scelta del nome non era affatto felice: il concetto di [...]

By: B. Greene

B. Greene — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:12:16 +0000

Haven’t we been here before. Whenever this happens I move on to the next distribution. I stopped using Mandriva back in the Mandrake days when it took serious recoding to get drivers like madwifi to work because they customized their driver to work with their wireless tools, and you had to pay the annual fee to get the “legal” driver because thats what their forums said.
I hope this is not an effort to divert to a proprietary fork, then I have to switch back to debian. Or is Canonical’s new found love and support for Debian about pushing for the commercialization of Ubuntu (or components thereof) — speaking to the release support now being accorded to Debian.
I agree that projects must be supported with cold hard cash, but perhaps there should be an easier way for ppa publishers to have their wares more visible, and make it easier to add/authorize repositories without the usual command line dance that doesn’t get any easier with the add repositories gui. Maybe a simgle gui rather than three separate menu entries in buried in different drop down menus, then package-kit and apt-get and aptitude to add to the confusion and exasperation.

By: aikiwolfie

aikiwolfie — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 16:50:56 +0000

# Jef Spaleta Says:
September 24th, 2009 at 2:08 pm

@aikiwolfie:
Canonical has a for-pay store front already… its a website.

store dot canonical dot com

There is a tiny software section. It would be interesting to know how many people have purchased software through that interface..but I doubt Canonical is going to release hard numbers on that ever.

-jef

You’re right. Canonical does have a web based store. It’s pretty barren. Always has been and likely always will be. Canonicals existing store has never been highly publicised. Never been pushed. It’s always just sort of been there.

Click ‘N’ Run is also still limping along. It has never really taken off in a big way. If it had we’d all be using it. But we’re not. People seem to like the idea of an App Store. That’s people, not geeks.

An app store is more like a software repository. Except you pay for what you use. It works for Apple and it works for Googles Android. Why not Ubuntu?

By: Hmm

Hmm — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 16:15:46 +0000

http://d0od.blogspot.com/2009/09/ubuntu-software-store-renamed.html

By: Christopher Tozzi

Christopher Tozzi — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 04:21:28 +0000

lalitpatanpur: interesting note; thanks for pointing it out. I’ll check this out when I get a chance to upgrade my Karmic installation.

By: lalitpatanpur

lalitpatanpur — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 01:55:29 +0000

I just noticed today (9/27) in my Ubuntu 9.10 beta updates that “Software Store” has been replaced with “Ubuntu Software Center.” I think the big U must have given into the naming arguments.

But, I agree, proprietary software should be available to the user at his or her discretion.

By: anytux

anytux — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 01:32:39 +0000

Software Store for Human Beings!

Now on a serious note. I think they should keep the “Add/Remove Applications” as it is and make another application called “Software Store” which will offer only proprietary applications for users who are willing to pay.

This way lots of developers or companies who are writing software applications for Windows will be interested in porting their applications to Ubuntu.

If it becomes a trend, then more Linux distributions will adopt this idea. After a while, we will see more and more applications that people use on Windows available on Linux too, so people will no longer complain that they would love to use Linux as their main operating system but they need some applications which are available on Windows only.

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Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:12:31 +0000

[...] Ubuntu Software Store Generates Questions Given the likelihood that the Software Store will eventually become a channel for selling applications in addition to distributing Free ones, and that that development is in the interests of everyone, I don’t see a reason to worry so much about the implications of the term “store.” Although the application won’t serve as a store in Ubuntu 9.10, it may well become one in future releases. And that’s fine. [...]