Free Software: the road to a Universal bundle, a powerful app store, and world domination (Free Software Magazine)

[Announcements] Posted Jan 3, 2011 23:57 UTC (Mon) by jake

Over at Free Software Magazine, Tony Mobily muses about free software "app stores". His view of what they would look like is decidedly different than the usual ways that free software applications get distributed. "Just to make it clear: the current way of installing software in GNU/Linux distro is not going to make a good app store possible. Having a nice interface to deal with a million dependencies behind the scenes is like putting lipstick on a pig. The limitations imposed by the current "spread the app across the filesystem" are too far-fetching. In the GNU/Linux eco-system, having a distro-dependent app store means further fragmentation and less adoption. Having only system-wide installation implies that every user needs to be an administrator to install apps."

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