The Ubuntu Software Store debuted last month in the latest alpha release of Ubuntu 9.10. Since its announcement, however, there has been more than a little debate over the application’s name, if not the concept behind it, with many commentators questioning the implication of the word “store.” Here’s the scoop.
Billed as an eventual replacement for the Add/Remove Programs application, the Software Store, which will ship in an early form with Ubuntu 9.10 in October 2009, aims to make finding and installing software in Ubuntu even easier, and to unify software-management tasks under a single interface.
But the name assigned to the application has met with a lot controversy on the basis that “store” is not an accurate description of the program’s current function, and that it carries implications that are at odds with the Ubuntu spirit. As one user put it most succinctly, “Doesn’t ’store’ imply that the user will be paying for the software?”
Indeed it does. So what does Canonical really have in mind?
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