Mastodawn

https://s3kshun8.games/blog/flatpak-won/

This should be mandatory reading for everyone invested in the Linux ecosystem, whether you leave feeling heard by or enraged by the author.

Gabe Newell Is Shitting Yacht Money into Flatpak and You're Still Arguing about Init Systems

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Maciej Barć Apr 5

@asie

If we were to agree with author I find it hard to "exercise the four freedoms" (https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html#four-freedoms) with some of their points.

What is Free Software? - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation

Since 1983, developing the free Unix style operating system GNU, so that computer users can have the freedom to share and improve the software they use.

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asie

@xgqt

I think the author's trying to point out that it is hard for most users of GNU/Linux to "exercise the four freedoms", or in fact benefit from other people exercising those freedoms in a practical sense today; in this way, the offering of the corporate machine becomes more compelling.

Having the freedom to do something does not absolve its user of criticism.