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Fedora Must (Carefully) Embrace Flathub (blogs.gnome.org)
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[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Because it doesn't matter for proprietary software.

[–] illusionist@lemmy.zip -4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Good actors are punished and bad ones aren't?

[–] uawarebrah@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 weeks ago

I think you miss the entire point of open source. It’s not that one is good or bad, it’s that one can be verified. Developers are welcome to publish their software however they want, but misrepresenting packages is disingenuous