Lars Wirzenius writes: > Right. It seems I have a different opinion here than the project has > in general, and because of that, I think it's as OK for snapd to be in > main as those other packages. And becaus snapd now has, or is getting, > support for other server sides, and there's a free one appearing, even > if I wasn't, it would still be OK.
Originally this thread was about opinions, there is one still not yet voiced: snap and flatpak (and nix?) make it easier to distribute propietary, non-FOSS sw on FOSS platforms. This is still about freedom of choice: there are users willing to run FOSS sw platform like debian linux and still purchase propietary, commercial sw to be run on said platform. Making that difficult on purpose might not be the greatest of ideas. Isn't this much different from tarballs with statically linked binaries inside, with exceptions that you get notifications about possible updates? And some sunny day someone ports snapd environment to VAX/VMS and all packaged goodies will run there too without a glitch? -- Antti
