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Raspberry Pi Team Launches Pi Store

Posted by samzenpus on from the pay-and-play dept.

sfcrazy writes "Raspberry Pi developer team has introduced the Pi store, a place to get software for Raspberry Pi, in collaboration with IndieCity and Velocix. The team hopes that the store will become a one-stop-shop for Raspbian Pi users. The store already has 23 major applications available for users including LibreOffice and Asterisk. There are classic games like Freeciv and OpenTTD and Raspberry Pi exclusive Iridium Rising. The team also managed to get 'one piece of commercial content: the excellent Storm in a Teacup from Cobra Mobile.'"

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  1. Wait, what?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I thought this was all about open source and stuff. Aren't these Apple Stores completely contrary to the spirit of OSS?

    1. Re:Wait, what?? by camperdave · · Score: 4, Insightful

      It's not an Apple store. It's a Raspberry store. Furthermore, it's not a brick and mortar palace, but an online software repository. Besides, you're not locked in to using it, so no it is not completely contrary to the spirit of OSS. Anyone can "upload their own content for moderation and release".

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    2. Re:Wait, what?? by Revotron · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Yes, because this absolutely, positively, most certainly prevents you from installing software from any other source.

      Oh, wait, no it doesn't. All it does is allow you to download pre-compiled binaries from a central source. You are still able to pull the source code from the project and view/compile it yourself. So tell me, how does this violate the spirit of open source software? Or are you just inherently afraid of anything called an "App Store"?

  2. Store? How about a repository? by Dizzer · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why do you need an "App Store" clone for every OS now? How is this supposed to make sense for free software in a Debian based distribution? Why don't they just put that stuff into regular apt repo?