Compare this with GNU/Linux distribution model, from the developer PoV. It's so nice, compared to this arbitrary arrogant gatekeeper non-sense that happens with

Compare this with GNU/Linux distribution model, from the developer PoV. It's so nice, compared to this arbitrary arrogant gatekeeper non-sense that happens with Google/Apple/... You write a useful app, publish it on your own web page, and distributors will actually come to your website, check the app, review it, build it for you, even for multiple archs sometimes, and distribute it via worldwide network of mirrors. There are even many competing distributions, so no single one has power to exclude you, users can download your app from your website and use it too, etc. Nobody will be able to stop them. For projects where there's no money in distribution, like those mentioned here, it's like a developer heaven. And next time someone will talk to me about how fragmentation in the Linux distribution ecosystem is bad, and that there are too many distributions, etc... I'm really glad there are, because if alternative is this amount of power accumullated in single hands, and this kind of behavior, then that is not desirable.