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by greggh » Sat Dec 12, 2009 4:59 am
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/11 ... rketplace/
Add-on-Con Mozilla has said it will "probably" open a marketplace for Firefox add-ons sometime next year.
Add-ons product manager Justin Scott (reluctantly) announced the news this morning at an add-on-happy conference in Mozilla's home town of Mountain View, California. "We'll probably be doing a marketplace pilot in 2010," he said.
Scott did not provide details. But earlier in the morning, he did say that Mozilla has no intention of using DRM - not that you would have expected anything else. "I don't know what we'll do, but we won't do DRM," he said.
"Look at the Apple App Store," the developer told the panel, referring to the application storefront the Jobsian cult has set up for the iPhone. "You guys are really smart guys. If you can't see a great path like that, I think it's a real bummer for developers."
But thanks to some additional prompting from conference host Robert Reich - founder of the real-time search outfit OneRiot - Scott did admit that some sort of Mozilla marketplace is on the way. Though that's all he said.
I have no problem with devs selling addons. But I won't be "buying" any that aren't "free". Will Mozilla allow non-free addons to be sold in their store?
