While much of the open source community’s concern has focused on the risk that these proposals could present to open source operating systems, an equally important open question is how “application store” and “application” are defined. As drafted, some definitions of “application store” are broad enough to capture developer infrastructure—such as code collaboration platforms, package managers, and open source indexing services—simply because they allow users to access or download software. Making software available for download is not the same as operating the kind of centralized, consumer-fac
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