brainstorming for UDS-N - Application Developers

Krzysztof Klimonda kklimonda at ubuntu.com
Mon Oct 4 20:12:15 BST 2010


On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 14:31 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> On Monday, October 04, 2010 02:27:25 pm Krzysztof Klimonda wrote:
> > Yes, I believe that right now those are, along with the paid Ubuntu
> > Software Center, the most important things we can do to make Ubuntu a
> > more viable platform for independent developers.
> 
> Personally, I suspect that if Ubuntu becomes a platform for delivering paid 
> proprietary add-ons, it would be significantly demotivating to those of us 
> volunteering our time for free to build a FOSS operating system.
> 
> Scott K

I don't see proprietary applications (add-ons? what do you mean) being
demotivating for our community developers unless whole Ubuntu makes a
switch to promote them and FOSS applications suffer in the process.

-- 
Krzysztof Klimonda <kklimonda at ubuntu.com>
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