On Sun, 09 Oct 2011 13:11:56 -0700, Darren New wrote:

> On 10/9/2011 10:31, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Sat, 08 Oct 2011 19:19:27 -0700, Darren New wrote:
>>
>>> On 10/8/2011 18:05, Jim Henderson wrote:
>>>> I didn't know I could install Adobe Acrobat, Flash, or other third
>>>> party software from Windows Update. ;)
>>>
>>> You can, if it passes Microsoft certification requirements. I saw
>>> instructions somewhere for setting it up with Microsoft.
>>
>> Not really the point, though.
> 
> Sure, in practice, Linux repos are the first and best source of code,
> and in practice Windows Update is the last place people go to look for
> updates of non-Microsoft code. But as I said, I think that's more the
> difference between FOSS and commercial software than a difference
> between Linux and Windows per se.
> 
> Is that your point?

Partly, yes.

>> But you're saying that it doesn't cost the folks who run Pacman money
>> to host repositories?
> 
> I'm not sure what your point is. It would cost Microsoft way more to
> host upgrades on Windows Update than it would to host free software on a
> Linux repository, even if the bandwidth and storage requirements were
> identical.

Packman (I spelt it wrong) is a large repository for open source software.

How is it that it would cost more to host a repository for software for 
one platform than the other?

Jim

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