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Banshee Amazon Store disabled in Ubuntu 11.04 by Canonical (Network World)

Banshee Amazon Store disabled in Ubuntu 11.04 by Canonical (Network World)

Posted Feb 17, 2011 22:15 UTC (Thu) by zonker (subscriber, #7867)
In reply to: Banshee Amazon Store disabled in Ubuntu 11.04 by Canonical (Network World) by leomilano
Parent article: Banshee Amazon Store disabled in Ubuntu 11.04 by Canonical (Network World)

"Can we leave this attitude behind and keep working together to make this world a better place?"

Well, here's the rub - there's a question whether this constitutes "working together" or not. One group produces software for a platform with a feature for raising money, and says "I want the money to go back to the platform." Then a downstream project that also uses that platform says "well, no - that competes with us making money, so either give us a 3/4 cut of the proceeds, or we'll hide your thing so ours is the default."

I'm not entirely sure that constitutes "working together."


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