Comments on: Buying Software in Ubuntu

By: Martin Owens

Martin Owens — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 09:19:45 +0000

Is your problem on buying software or is your problem with proprietary software?

Would you not buy Free and Open Source Software? and if not, why not? Do you like to see the community that gives you all this wonderful software not able to earn a living from it?

At some point in the future, everyone will have to pay. It just won’t be like you pay for windows, it will be like you pay for your TV License, Gas Bill or Taxes. Because it’s seems obvious that normal users are too selfish to reward those who do all this wonderful work.

By: mozart

mozart — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 09:02:22 +0000

Canonical intend to sell software? OK, no problem for me, it’s time to switch to another distribution.

By: Martin Owens

Martin Owens — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:15:03 +0000

You wouldn’t accept a cure from a witch doctor who practices alchemy. why would you accept software that is just as much voodoo, that has no scientific process, no peer review, no social imperative and really bloody bad economic consequences.

I wouldn’t call proprietary software immoral or ethically wrong, I’d call it damn near incompetence verging on the stupid. For anyone to be involved in such an enlightenment rejecting model of production says a lot about human regression. Sure you can program it and you can deploy it, but I’ll always think less of you for doing so.

By: UbuntuStoreBasher

UbuntuStoreBasher — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:32:30 +0000

The real issue is that the new Store, now Center, is WORSE than the previous “Add/Remove Apps”:
1) clumsy interface when trying to add more than one app at a time
2) got rid of the stars rating the software
Both really useful features.
A HUGE step backwards.

By: ESR

ESR — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 05:37:31 +0000

Proprietary software is ethically wrong? Do you really believe that?

Maybe you should stay away from medical devices then:
http://www.jfplayhouse.com/2009/09/gpl-medical-advisory.html

By: Erigami

Erigami — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:43:14 +0000

It turns out there’s already a proposal for bounties in ubuntu: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/1295/

By: Martin Owens

Martin Owens — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:31:02 +0000

Who’s fears? Actually this is reading other people’s positions and misreadings and the consequence of those kinds of predications.

You read far too much into my post that wasn’t there.

By: linuxcanuck

linuxcanuck — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:06:57 +0000

It is called Ubuntu Software Center as of the last update. Much ado about nothing.

Most users won’t use it. You can install only one app at a time. It is for newbies only, IMO. If you don’t like it then don’t use it and try not to read between the lines and attribute things to Canonical that are pure supposition. And don’t project your fears on others.

By: Sebastian Bengtsson

Sebastian Bengtsson — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 03:14:22 +0000

Writing a specification of the software (or feature) you want produced. in a way that makes sure you actually get what you wanted for your offered bounty money is a very complicated task. Sometimes it is more complicated than writing the program code itself – though of course those tasks requires different sets of skills.

By: Erigami

Erigami — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:12:06 +0000

The conversation about donations here got me thinking about donations, bounties, and Ubuntu's brainstorming page. I've submitted an idea that would allow bounties to be associated with ideas. Perhaps then users could pay developers to add features.