On Apr 30, 2010, at 12:06 PM, <[email protected]> <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Apr 29, 2010, at 5:16 PM, Dave Neary wrote: >> >>>>>> >>>>>> Because we may still need some distinction between app store >>>>>> downloads, I'm still inclined to name these "Add ons" or >>>>>> "Extras". >>>> Maybe think of the name from the end-user perspective? Those people >>>> will see different stores and then this community place. How to make >> it >>>> obvious to a user that this place caters community built open >>>> applications. I.e. it is not a store, but you can get useful things >> from >>>> there. "Community apps" ? >>> >>> >>> Why do we need a distinction? Can't we just have an app store where >> lots >>> of applications are free? If the goal is to communicate the >>> communitiness/freedom of the applications, perhaps there's another >> way >>> to do that, but having a separate distribution channel just seems to >> me >>> to make it less likely that people will go there. > > Ok, who's store? Intel? Nokia? Samsung? Asus? Acer? > Commercial is commercial, this is supposed to be open. > >> Look at it from the position of the vendor (because MeeGo is being >> designed for their needs). If a vendor's email client sucks, they don't >> want a community version to take its place because then they lose all >> their super-duper analytics of what their users are doing and saying. >> How can they prevent that free, better community app from being used? >> Ban it to the loser community repo from the beginning and slap a big >> warning on it saying it causes cancer. Problem averted. > > A bit paranoid today?
I like to call it a healthy skepticism. But I understand rhetorical subtlety is something of a challenge so I understand why you might resort to name calling. I don't understand why you corporate guys feel so threatened though, you always seem to resort to ad hominem attack. Jeremiah _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
