[plug] Linux Desktop Market

[John Knight]

Ever compiled a tarball? Ever left home even? Dated a girl? Did something 
without telling your mum? ;) The world runs on not being insular (well, 
people naturally break free from it). Using central repositories solely is 
asking users to switch from choice and freedom outside to something insular 
instead. To a devoted few geeks (flame imminent, please don't kill me), this 
seems the ideal solution, to but to all of my mates who just wanna grab an 
app from somewhere, the idea seems silly to them.

"...it was brilliant, there was three up against a thousand, and boy, did we 
give those three heaps!"


>When we all start using software from untrusted sources, it won't be
>long before we're facing the same problems as MS Windows users.
>
>Maybe the PC world doesn't work from software repositories, but that's
>precisely why it doesn't work.