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Flatpak is essentially RedHat/IBM tech. Why should Canonical even think about supporting their competitors. Just because multi billion corps like RedHat/IBM hav
by sprash 4y ago
Flatpak is essentially RedHat/IBM tech. Why should Canonical even think about supporting their competitors. Just because multi billion corps like RedHat/IBM have the audacity to ask for donations to develop their products doesn't mean Flatpaks are in any way neutral territory.
- phendrenad2 4y agoAh, refreshingly cynical. RedHat and Canonical would rather protect their smol kingdoms than expand the greater Linux ecosystem.
- the_why_of_y 4y agoFlatpak is supported by Endless [1], SUSE [2], Codethink [3], Collabora [4], Igalia [5] ... none of these businesses have an issue with "supporting their competitors" because that's an inherent part of doing open source as a business. [1] https://support.endlessos.org/en/apps/flatpak https://support.endlessos.org/en/apps/flatpak [2] https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/containerised_apps/ https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/containerised_apps/ [3] https://www.codethink.co.uk/articles/2022/flathub-codethink-collaboration/ https://www.codethink.co.uk/articles/2022/flathub-codethink-... [4] https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2017/08/17/debconf-17-flatpak-and-debian/ https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2017/08/17/debc... [5] https://github.com/Igalia/webkit-flatpak-sdk https://github.com/Igalia/webkit-flatpak-sdk