Novell Ponders "Open-Source Apps Store"

Posted by timothy on Tuesday June 9, 2009 @02:00AM from the return-of-click-n-run dept.

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.'"

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Re:Great Idea, just follow through Solidly. by jshackles · 2009-06-09 02:17 · Score: 4, Informative

I think they are mostly trying to capture the iphone / itunes / android / windows mobile / palm-pre marketplace mentality. Nobody is interested when it's called a "repository" but if you call it an "app store" people will download....
Re:So, in other words by dov_0 · 2009-06-09 12:24 · Score: 4, Informative

You'd think that someone would work their synaptic brain patterns and come up with that!
Screenshots have been available in synaptic on ubuntu for a couple of releases now

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