>I'm wondering if the concept of free-software and a walled garden are really that incompatible. They are defiantly compatible. Consider the way Debian (and ma

>I'm wondering if the concept of free-software and a walled garden are really that incompatible. They are defiantly compatible. Consider the way Debian (and many others) approach the problem. Almost all software is installed through the package manager, which gets the software from a set of repositories. These repositories can be as much of a walled garden as the repository owners want them to be. The main difference is that, it is possible to add third party repositories, and/or remove first party repositories (or sidestep the package manager entirely).