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this post was submitted on 23 Apr 2024
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Snaps are proprietary, flatpacks are not, is the long and short of it
The store is SaaS (service as a software substitute) and not necessary proprietary
They are not. But the store is proprietary and snapd doesnt allow other stores. You could patch snapd to allow other stores though and the format is open
Snaps are just as “open source” as “Office Open XML” (.docx, .pptx etc.) are open file formats.
If there isn't a fully open source software stack, it isn't really open source.
You can't "just patch it" to make snap work with another store. Instead what you've done is invented an entirely different store, which you're now going to have to maintain. It is never going to be upstreamed to Canonical. You are going to be in a perpetual tug-of-war with Canonical driving snap development towards their own needs and not your own.
Not proprietary though
It is SaaS (service as a software substitute) and vendor lock in