That response, especially given that this is something that’s entirely offline and optional, is probably the closest we’re going to get to you admitting that you just want to be negative about this rather than actually having a criticism of it.
What do you think are the ulterior motives behind this GPLv3 licensed app? I think the ulterior motive is getting better accessibility tools so it’s easier to convince governments to use Ubuntu (and likely pay for extended support).
It’ll cost a lot more than 2.1 BN won once you take into account all the potential customers who discover that they can get better coffee for cheaper just 40 m away.
Amongst other things, the amount of work Ubuntu does providing kernels is something that many distros want to take advantage of.
Discover has long had integrated Deb, snap, and flatpak integration. Oh, and fwupd too.
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Kubuntu 26.04 coming along so well!
Fwiw while I mostly agree with you, the G in GPL stands for General.
Try putting it on the speaker’s nose and jiggling.
Most of Canonical’s software, including things like multipass and lxd are GPL or AGPL licensed. Even their corporate website is LGPL’d.
Meanwhile at work I’m dealing with the on-device differences between MBR and GPT partition schemes…
This was always the case. Main and restricted were guaranteed by Canonical, universe and multiverse fully owned by the community. A bunch of paying customers were unhappy with not getting updates to universe packages, so Canonical made a separate repository that would do that for Ubuntu Pro. Community members with access to the universe repository can still upload fixes there.
It’s not that iOS is unsupported. It’s just that they prohibit browsers from implementing the features my webapp needs.
Snaps are more comparable to nix, really. They can provide system services and even your kernel. Flatpaks and AppImages are only really about distributing desktop apps, but the rest of the system still needs to be provided another way.
Neither Flatpaks nor AppImages can provide those.
Flatpaks are only “competing” with a small portion of what snaps do.
What is a good js framework?
It’s not a Red Hat derivative. It’s upstream of Red Hat.
In a way Fedora is like interim Ubuntu releases, CentOS Stream is like LTS Ubuntu releases, and RHEL is like Ubuntu Pro. So if you want to stay away from a US company, Fedora isn’t a great idea.
I’m just making it clear that you don’t have any actual criticisms of this application and haven’t addressed it when people point out that:
You’re welcome to remain belligerent. I’m not here to change your mind.