Exactly. I feel they want to sell it to a big player, but no big player will touch it unless they can fully control it. Hence snap as part of that plan. Ubuntu is a hell no for me.
How would they trap everyone in the ecosystem?
This isn’t Apple, there’s a gajillon other ways of getting software you can use on every single linux distro.
Then I guess it’s a good thing they don’t control all other Linux distros.
But they would to a degree if the Snap Store would actually succeed becoming the Linux app store (like Steam is for games but that’s more because all other vendors don’t care to make a Linux client).
Exactly. I feel they want to sell it to a big player, but no big player will touch it unless they can fully control it. Hence snap as part of that plan. Ubuntu is a hell no for me.
Forget selling it.
I think they’re going to get everyone trapped in the ecosystem, and then they’ll start charging for access to the source.
How would they trap everyone in the ecosystem?
This isn’t Apple, there’s a gajillon other ways of getting software you can use on every single linux distro.
That’s exactly what they’re trying to change.
Then I guess it’s a good thing they don’t control all other Linux distros.
Yes, thank god for that.
But they would to a degree if the Snap Store would actually succeed becoming the Linux app store (like Steam is for games but that’s more because all other vendors don’t care to make a Linux client).
Open source software would still be available packaged by the distros and as Flatpak, even if the software’s author offered it exclusively as Snap.
Well, other software exists: https://github.com/flathub/com.bitwig.BitwigStudio/commits/master
Well, alternatives exist: https://lmms.io/download#linux
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