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Seriously, just no. This is entirely against the spirit of open source software and Linux entirely. It just turns Ubuntu into another incompatible walled garden
by meaty 14y ago
Seriously, just no. This is entirely against the spirit of open source software and Linux entirely. It just turns Ubuntu into another incompatible walled garden. I've had enough of all these turf wars between "app stores" and walled gardens. To hell with them all - this is not why I use Linux and this is the same for many people.
I think Shuttleworth's intentions have finally become apparent. Hypocritical sell out.
I'm moving the last 3 LTS machines to Debian tomorrow and cancelling our landscape service.
- TazeTSchnitzel 14y agoUbuntu, like Android, only uses the Linux ecosystem for its foundations. The end result will not be a completely free and open system.
- tjdetwiler 14y agoAndroid (one of the "walled gardens") has done nothing but make the linux kernel more popular. While I'm with you in that I'm not really interested in Ubuntu or this "app store", I realize I am not their target audience. This could actually be a big help to OSS if the SDK was GPL'd, however I have a feeling they will go the way of Google and pick a permissive license.
- vidarh 14y agoThat's rather premature before you even know what they want to include. A large chunk of the API's and libraries that are in widespread use across most Linux distro's today started off promoted by one or the other of the commercial Linux distros.