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    [–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    Why do they need to disrespect their users rights to that though?

    [–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    How does Canonical disrespect your rights?

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    Ubuntu benefited from an open community for years, and when it came time to create a solution for a problem, they chose to develop something and not share it with community that helped them get where they are now. That's a straight up asshole move.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    I dare say that allowing any distro to use their repos is pretty generous, and gives back to the community. They have no obligation to open source Snapcraft's server, and snapd being able to install snaps locally is more than enough.

    https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/download-snaps-and-install-offline/15713

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

    What an embarassingly obsequious viewpoint.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    They snap store is proprietary

    [–] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    So are the drivers your computer likely relies on. Are you willing to buy a thinkpad from 2005 and use a random FSF approved distro?

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

    Yes. Honestly just bought a chip so I can mess around with librebooting my laptop.

    Its about harm reduction my man. Meth is bad on the heart but so is excessive grease. I'm going to just never use meth and cut down my excessive fat consumption where I can.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    Silly whataboutism. When there are multiple Linux package management solutions to choose from that are functional, decentralized, and fully FOSS, including ones that work across distros, switching to the proprietary Canonical-controlled Snap Store is moving backward for no good reason.

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    I don't see how this matters.

    Let's look at the very worst case possible scenario: Everyone abandons Flatpak and AppImage and moves to Snapcraft, and Canonical decides to make a decision that destroys the store.

    You can still install FOSS apps from somewhere, at worst compile them.

    All that would be lost if Snapcradt stopped existing are the proprietary apps, which you wouldn't use anyways.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    That's not the worst possible scenario, I'd love to see the Snap Store completely replaced with decentralized FOSS alternatives. Any scenario in which the Snap Store takes market share from decentralized FOSS alternatives is considerably worse.

    Also, who said I wouldn't use proprietary apps? I refuse to use Snap because Flatpak and other FOSS application packaging solutions that aren't locked to a store controlled by a single for-profit company already serve my needs. I don't have any objection to using proprietary apps that don't have alternatives that meet my needs.