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Microsoft wants to lock everyone into its store via universal Windows apps, says game kingpin

Bronek Kozicki

actually ...

... there is one way I would support (as in : happy to use) Windows Universal apps. That would be:

1) app store independent of Microsoft

2) easy to switch to and from for Windows users (no need to look for side-loading switch)

3) source code available for all distributed applications (does not have to be GPL - MIT BSD Apache etc. are just fine)

4) no dependencies on closed source libraries/plugins

5) all applications can be easily rebuilt by the user, with free Visual Studio community edition

In other words, make it similar to repository of your average Linux distribution.

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