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Chris Wilson (notgary) has assigned this bug to you for software-center in Ubuntu:

It is now possible to see apps that were previously purchased in the
"previous purchases" section.

However, free (as in "free beer") proprietary apps are also listed as
"previsouly purchased" even though no transaction was made in the first
place.

There are 2 problems with this:
- It is semantically incorrect to qualify those apps as "previously pruchased", which can also be confusing for the user;
- Free proprietary apps are given more visibility than free open-source apps.

Free proprietary apps should not be listed as "previously purchased".

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: software-center 5.4.1.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-18.29-generic 3.5.7
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-18-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu6
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Nov  1 13:30:18 2012
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-10-21 (10 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release i386 (20121017.2)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: software-center
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Affects: hundredpapercuts
     Importance: Low
     Assignee: Papercuts Ninja (papercuts-ninja)
         Status: Confirmed

** Affects: software-center
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Affects: software-center (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug i386 quantal running-unity
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Free proprietary apps appear as "previously pruchased"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1073794
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