The title says it all. Browsed Flathub and saw this fat warning label on the Steam Flatpak. Maybe not the best idea if you want to compete with Canoncial’s Snapstore, but hey, what do I know 🤷
I don’t agree with this take. the warning seems totally reasonable to me
Can someone please help me out? I don’t get it
This seems like the right way - informing users, those who don’t care don’t care with or without. I’d say that’s fully withing the freedom philosophy
if you want to compete with Canoncial’s Snapstore
says it all about your mindset, you think big numbers are good regardless of context, as if google play wasn’t enough of a warning for other distribution platforms
This seems like a very reasonable and pretty tame warning?
Cool, but there’s no shot any serious software company will want that shit under their brand
Then they should make it open source (not free)
If your goal is to get back scratches from the circlejerk don’t feel the need to participate lol
Does Google not count as a serious software company now?
Mark discovers hyperbola
I don’t get what your point is.
Should flathub remove the warning or proprietory software?
And why do you think snapstore would be any better in that regard?
Not much, apparently.
flathub, how DARE you put popular software that many linux users use on your repository?
op is making the opposite point, saying that companies making closed source software are going to be put off from putting their software on flathub, the clown face is there with the intent to portray flathub’s action as being naive and idiotic, arguing that not catering to such companies by not letting them distribute closed source software without telling it’s potential users is a bad thing
I was mildly annoyed the other day by a conceptually similar warning about some software I was installing from F-droid. The annoying part was that unlike this flathub one it wasn’t completely clear how exactly the app was using the dangerous features I was being warned about, but I had done my research and knew I wanted to install it anyway. Took me a moment to remember that for a lot of people it probably helps to be reminded of the risks.
Then I went to install the same thing on someone else’s phone with Google Play. No warnings, but I had to scroll quite a long way down past ads for competitors and presumably malware-laden copies with confusingly similar names before finding the app whose name I’d typed in the search field.
Also, F-Droid recently committed to more transparency with their anti-features and many newer (and updated older) apps show a message about what the anti-feature actually entails on that particular app.
