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Free is too expensive (Economist)

Free is too expensive (Economist)

Posted Mar 31, 2012 11:09 UTC (Sat) by kklimonda (subscriber, #60089)
In reply to: Free is too expensive (Economist) by jedidiah
Parent article: Free is too expensive (Economist)

> The software vendor also has the option of providing a Windows style GUI installer. These have been commonplace since the mid 90s. The developer can also provide a self contained tarball.

neither of those options will add the software to the package database making it harder than needed to do wide deployments, updating and uninstalling those applications.


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