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

Posted by scrubs on Jan 3, 2011 3:29 PM EDT
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Apple is doing it again: they are releasing an app store for OS X on the 6th of January. Just like the iPhone app store, and the Android app store, this is going to be a hit: the OS X ecosystem will get a giant boost from it, and we are left — once again — with a lot to learn. Before you mention that GNU/Linux doesn’t need an app store because it’s free software, and before you even say that GNU/Linux already has an app store through one of the many software managers (Synaptics, Ubuntu Software Center, apt-get), please read this article.

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Apps need to warn the user if they need updating, tracyanne 3 1,238 Jan 4, 2011 5:39 AM

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