How to make app stores friendly to Open Source
Microsoft recently seemed to propose that Open Source software didn’t belong in the Windows app store. Excuse me?
After the news broke, Giorgio Sardo, Microsoft’s General Manager of the Microsoft Store, argued on Twitter that it wasn’t Microsoft’s intent. “We absolutely want to support developers distributing successful OSS apps. In fact, there are already fantastic OSS apps in the Store! The goal of this policy is to protect customers from misleading listings.”