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Ubuntu 25.10: these are some big, deep changes! (tilvids.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by mesamunefire@piefed.social to c/linux@programming.dev

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[–] TrivialBetaState@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

There was a time that Ubuntu was more polished than other distros but these times are gone. Canonical tried to capitalize their success by making their users "the product" at first and now have attempted to release a closed ecosystem of snaps based on proprietary backend software. They have signed their own death sentence more than once. Their way to redemption is to release the source code of the snap store under GPL and stop trying to replace GPLed tools with MIT or Apache licenses. Either you are committed to free software or not.

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

MIT and Apache are free software licenses. They provide all of the “4 freedoms” defined by the Free Software Foundation.