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Ubuntu 13.04 Will Allow Instant Purchasing, Right From the Dash

Posted by samzenpus on from the easy-buy dept.

sfcrazy writes "Ubuntu is becoming a shopping center. Instead of addressing the queries raised by Stallman and the EFF, Canonical is now pushing for making Ubuntu a shopping cart. With Ubuntu 13.04 Canonical is going one step forward, and soon you will be able to purchase software and music right from the Dash without opening the software center or web browser.This is intended to make the whole experience even more interactive and useful for the end user."

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  1. Unity by Nerdfest · · Score: 5, Insightful

    As the Canonical developer's Unity DE shows, Canonical is not really that interested in the opinions of its current users.

    1. Re:Unity by TheGratefulNet · · Score: 5, Insightful

      MINT is going to get a lot of traffic.

      ubuntu annoyed me enough over the last year or two that I've moved.

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      "It is now safe to switch off your computer."
    2. Re:Unity by ifiwereasculptor · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I'm sorry to be overly blunt, but that is asnine. Ubuntu is integrating an app store to its DE, that's all. It's a convenience every other major OS already has (Windows, Android, OSX, iOS etc), only made a bit more convenient by not requiring you to open the store app. It's not the end of the world. As long as they stay firmly based on Debian, strenghtening Ubuntu strenghtens Linux and open source as a whole. The more market/mind share it gets, the better driver support we get, more attention from developers and so on.

      So I wish Ubuntu lots of success. If I dislike a particular feature, I can either deactivate it in Ubuntu, use a different DE, jump ship to their source, Debian, directly, or a derivative that doesn't implement those functions, like Mint. I can even roll my own flavor of Ubuntu, since the source is public. Such plethora of alternatives is exactly what free/open software is all about and people bitching that Ubuntu is "turning their backs on open software" don't seem to understand it at all.