> We will integrate with online social services to provide features like ratings and comments using OCS. OCS needs a couple of things added to the API, which will happen in the next few weeks

woo hoo, will be great for building communities and finding software.

and without the profit motive of commercial software the quality of the user generated content should (in theory) be a little higher and a bit less spammy (although the emacs/vim wars will find continue! and there will plenty of support requests when what we need is reviews)

yesterday i was installing a dyndns service on a linux desktop, had to install them all just to workout which one would be the best fit for my needs, this would prob have saved me the trouble.

I didn't know a couple of the acronyms from the article. Here they are in case anyone else is puzzled like I was:

CLA: Contributor License Agreement - http://www.ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2010/10/20/open-letter-to-mark...

OCS: Open Collaborative Services - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Collaboration_Services

Finally. I always wondered "why don't all linux distros have a universal app installer?" It just didn't make sense