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Free is too expensive (Economist)Free is too expensive (Economist)Posted Mar 31, 2012 11:59 UTC (Sat) by jospoortvliet (subscriber, #33164)In reply to: Free is too expensive (Economist) by jcm Parent article: Free is too expensive (Economist) A nice solution is this. If you integrate this in your website, like qupzilla did you offer something which both integrates with package management AND is darn easy. Of course it depends on the distro a bit, openSUSE has one-click-install which, despite needing a few more clicks than one, makes installing something 'over the web' really easy. Other distro's aren't there yet, requiring command line stuff to add repo's you'd need to keep things updated. But if and when OCI gets ported to other distro's we're getting closer to how it should be while staying within the distro's comfort zone. Which a self-extracting tarball or similar solutions usually don't do.
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Free is too expensive (Economist) Posted Mar 31, 2012 16:43 UTC (Sat) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] A nice solution is this. If you integrate this in your website, like qupzilla did you offer something which both integrates with package management AND is darn easy. It sounded “too good to be true” thus of course I went to check. I'm using latest version of LTS - Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) and the only thing I see is the following text: “Ubuntu Precise, Oneiric, Natty and Maverick users can install QupZilla by running these commands”… FAIL. This is what I'm talking about: I need to upgrade the whole distro just to get a new app! Worse: the distro I need to install is not yet even released (and I will probably need to wait few months till it'll be tested by our IT guys). If this is not demonstration of failure of the whole model then I don't know what is.
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