Re: [Trisquel-users] the Ubuntu Software Center will go to /dev/null

[chris]

I actually worked with the original lead developer of the Ubuntu Software  
Software Center in a past life. The guy got two shots to get it right and  
failed miserably. While the concept of a point and click store was a major  
improvement to a command line package management system the guy was/is an  
overall idiot. He doesn't care about Linux or free software nor get the  
issues of writing a GUI in what amounts to a scripting language.

This all goes back to a failure by Canonical to actually tackle the desktop.  
You *need* a clear business plan and if you don't have it you're not going to  
succeed. I never had much confidence in Canonical succeeding on the desktop.  
However it appears they've succeeded somewhere. Canonical's initiated an IPO  
which I don't think they'd do unless they were in a solid position somewhere.