[Bug 419295] Re: "Price: Free" in every software description sounds cheesy and is redundant!

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

Thanks for the report. The details you're questioning are the way they
are mostly for forward compatibility.

There are two reasons for the "Price: Free". First, many users are
unaware that Ubuntu has hundreds of applications available for free, so
even when they find their way into the Store, it is necessary to clarify
that the applications are indeed free. And second, while most
applications will always be free, from 2010 there will always be some
that are not. Showing the price only for those applications that
*aren't* free would cause a Simon-says problem, where the way to verify
that something was free would be to check that there was no "Price:" row
anywhere on the page.

The left pane will be rather bare in version 1.0 of the Store, with only
two (and sometimes three) items. As I mentioned in the spec, though, "In
future versions the navigation pane will contain other items, such as
currently-inserted CDs/DVDs, child items for free vs. paid software, and
perhaps user-created collections".

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"Price: Free" in every software description sounds cheesy and is redundant!
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