What Do You Think Of Ubuntu's 10.10 Software Center And The Ability To Purchase Apps

[donkyhotay]

I don't know if this is a bug or something but apparently there are 7 votes but only 3 views on this thread, how is that possible?

It's not a bug, you can vote in a poll without posting to the thread.

[kamaboko]

it worked so well for linspire.

doh!

[toupeiro]

personally, I think this is a step in the wrong direction philosophically for ubuntu. Ubuntu's manifesto claims it will always be free. Now, you have injections of pay-on-demand application capacities being applied to the core image. This is what happens when a good thing gets too big. Greed begets the purpose of the whole thing, and what was once good just becomes commercialized. Whats next? Ads? If a company wants to create a commercial repository, for delivering their application to ubuntu, there are other ways to do this. I don't like version development of a free/open (in all meanings) OS suddenly abandoning their philosophy that drew so many users and developers to them.

That being said, Canonical doesn't care what I think, they just want me to buy crap from the ubuntu store.

(On another note, I've been spending the week at VMWorld in San Francisco, CA which focused heavily on cloud computing this year. I was really surprised not to see canonical here, talking about a cloud service tier where they are currently making money, and can make lots more.)

It won't hurt ubuntu immediately, but I do believe it will hurt ubuntu over time.

[rollin]

personally, I think this is a step in the wrong direction philosophically for ubuntu. Ubuntu's manifesto claims it will always be free. Now, you have injections of pay-on-demand application capacities being applied to the core image. This is what happens when a good thing gets too big. Greed begets the purpose of the whole thing, and what was once good just becomes commercialized. Whats next? Ads? If a company wants to create a commercial repository, for delivering their application to ubuntu, there are other ways to do this. I don't like version development of a free/open (in all meanings) OS suddenly abandoning their philosophy that drew so many users and developers to them.

That being said, Canonical doesn't care what I think, they just want me to buy crap from the ubuntu store.

(On another note, I've been spending the week at VMWorld in San Francisco, CA which focused heavily on cloud computing this year. I was really surprised not to see canonical here, talking about a cloud service tier where they are currently making money, and can make lots more.)

It won't hurt ubuntu immediately, but I do believe it will hurt ubuntu over time.

So wrong! Imagine a leading Linux distro in 50 years... Your ideas are outdated, sorry. It's not greed, it is the way Linux and the awesome Ubuntu need to go. The potential for companies to realise an equitable return programming for Linux is a massive gain for everyone. Even the die hards will eventually sit there and think, actually I'm glad Ubuntu started this my favourite X app is now in Linux...

[Madspyman]

It's cool, but it's hard to really give an opinion as there is only one app in the store.

[MetaDark]

It's not a bug, you can vote in a poll without posting to the thread.

I said view, not post, but it doesn't really matter.

[Dustin2128]

meh, neutral.

[Cypress421]

I have no problem, as long as the paid stuff doesn't choke off open source programmers and turn everything into payware apps, like a demented version of Windows, corrupting everything Ubuntu stands for. As long as there is choice, and the paid stuff is just as good the free stuff with no spyware phoning home (I really have been tainted by Windows) fine.

[Ewingo401]

As long as Ubuntu stays "free as in beer" and they don't start removing open source applications from their repos in an attempt to sell more paid apps then I don't have a problem with it.

[Bachstelze]

There should be an "I don't care" option.