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I have been watching the evolution of the Ubuntu Software Center for quite a while now. I had doubts about its interface and its speed, but I liked the fact that it offered an easy, down-to-earth interface that allowed users to install software easily. However, I have to say that the way the Ubuntu Software Center has evolved is worrying me -- a lot. I am not against the idea of selling software. What I am against, is confusing proprietary software with non-proprietary software, The Ubuntu Software Center seems to be doing just that.
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Ubuntu Software Center is Mixing Proprietary and Free Software in a Dangerous Way
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(Score: 2) by HiThere on Monday June 08 2015, @07:00PM
The software *could* be in separate repositories. That's the traditional solution for Debian descendant systems. If it is, then I don't see the problem. If it isn't...that's unreasonably bad.
Separate repositories allows one to decide which categories of software one will install. Even if you have all the repositories installed, you can, at least with apt-get, synaptic, etc., decide at install time which repositories you will allow to be used AT THIS TIME.
OTOH, I haven't used Ubuntu recently. Perhaps their "Ubuntu Software Center" program doesn't allow one to make this decision...or even to know that one is making it.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.