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> It also shows how little you know about OSS Snaps seemed like a fair example since you didn’t specify, and Ubuntu is one of the largest distros by market sha
by dahart 5y ago
> It also shows how little you know about OSS
Snaps seemed like a fair example since you didn’t specify, and Ubuntu is one of the largest distros by market share. I don’t know what licensing has to do with your original point. I don’t know what vanishingly small linux distros used by a tiny minority of technical people has to do with @scrollaway’s point. I don’t know how making assumptions about what I know to slide in an ad-hom zinger has to do with taking the high road.
The point that you bypassed with your straw man in the first place is that once a software distribution ecosystem gets large enough, it’s guaranteed to run on some amount of trust and gets too large to be auditable. This is why we have sandboxing, but ultimately even sandboxed apps when they get popular are a privacy threat, this is a problem Debian hasn’t even remotely solved.