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Novell Ponders "Open-Source Apps Store"
Barence writes "Novell plans to bring the wealth of open-source software to everyday users through an 'open-source apps store.' 'I would compare what's happening on netbooks with what's happening to the smartphone,' Holger Dyroff, vice president of business development at Novell told PC Pro. 'There's a core experience, but then the ability to customise that experience. On the user end, all they'll see is an open-source applications store with one-click downloads of new software. Unlike the other stores though, they won't have to pay for any of those applications, which will be very attractive.'"
Or an extension to the standard Synaptic-type front end to repositories where you could just click and run an app. What could you call something where you could just click and run any application you might want, I wonder... Hmmmm...I just can't seem to think of anything to name a click and run type of interface to open source repositories.
Oh sorry that was just a twitch from the electric shock..... its dead!.
I think you meant suppository
No Slackware? FORGET IT!!!
Of course. The purpose of software is to generate revene for programmers and their employers. The availability of free and convenient sources of good software demotivates the professsional programmer by devaluing his product until he can't get money for it unless it's innovative, more powerful or easier to use.
These "free software" rogue programmers must be stopped! If this were allowed to continue for a couple decades, the jerks might even make whole operating systems and office suites. Average people might work an entire day without using any paid-for software at all. This is anarchy.
Help stamp out iliturcy.
it's not the price that makes software evil. It's the lack of freedom. There was some beer analogy about that iirc.
It has an apple-ey sounding name...
It usually goes like this:
1. Group A invents something
2. Nobody buys it.
3. Apple does the same thing, but worse, and more expensive.
4. Everyone wants it.
5. Groups B-K try and copy Apple, making something better, uglier and cheaper.
6. Everyone still wants the Apple thing they can't afford.
7. Massive credit card debt and economic crisis.