No, it is emphatically not "one of the principles of FOSS that it's free as in beer as well as free as in speech". <http://www.fsf.org/licensing/essays/selling.html> <http://opensource.org/docs/osd> And while Ubuntu itself will always be free of charge, the Center will sell software regardless of whether it is called a Store or not. (So if you thought it should be renamed from the Ubuntu Software Store on the grounds that it wouldn't be selling software, you were mistaken.)
The reason the operating system is designed for users who don't know that most Ubuntu software is free is that they are the majority of the computer-using population. And even if they were not, it would still be important to show the price for every application, regardless of whether it is free of charge. Otherwise, as I have already explained, the way of telling whether an application was free of charge would be to scour the application page to make sure it didn't mention a price anywhere, and that would be obnoxious. -- "Price: Free" is redundant when user is navigating in the "Get Free Software" section https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/419295 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
