Ubuntu Software Store: What it does, and how you can help

Scott James Remnant scott at canonical.com
Tue Sep 1 12:21:05 BST 2009


On Fri, 2009-08-28 at 11:07 +0100, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:

> The nifty thing about "store" is that it has those two meanings -- shop,
> and repository 
> 
I don't agree.

"Store" primarily means a place where you *purchase* things.

The secondary meaning of a repository implies that it's somewhere that
*you* can store software you have, not somewhere that you obtain new
software (for free).

Scott
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Scott James Remnant
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