@SuperDicq I predicted this crap, the moment distribution becomes windows xp level of software installation it's a flood of freaking malware that will happen and most people won't even know it. Flathub/snap same crap, it's pretty frustrating to me that only trisquel has made it very easy for users to install and uninstall software with a GUI compared to popular distributions like the *buntus.
After that you still have a few of the big mainstream distros that still do offer proprietary software but still do a decent job at separating the free stuff from the proprietary stuff like Debian, Gentoo and Fedora so the user at least has a choice.
Then third in line there's the repos that don't give a shit and ship it all together like Ubuntu, Arch, PopOS, Manjaro, etc.
And at the bottom of the barrel are the shit tier malware infested repos that have no standards and anyone can upload random shit to like Flathub, Snapcraft and NixOS.
Don't forget language specific package repositories like python's pip.
Few days ago I wanted to install a software which was freely licensed, and it said install it via pip. Of course I'd not, so I decided to package it for guix. When trying to package it, I noticed there's a non free dependency in it!
I wonder how many people had installed that nonfree dependency even without realising it, thinking they were installing FreeSoftware.
Plus "LanguageTool website connects to a proprietary sister project LanguageTool Plus, which provides improved error detection for English and German, as well as easier revision of longer texts, following the open-core model."
@SuperDicq@redstarfish@mangeurdenuage the EU funded Languagetool and I read somewhere in the FSF repository that it betrayed the libre/free software movement
Thankfully at least in Europe governments are starting to wake up and funds start to exists to fund free software projects to counteract the American tech monopolies.
@SuperDicq@redstarfish > maybe the FSF or an organisation like that should start hosting replacement repositories that guarantees all packages to be free software for these things as well. Sadly the FSF doesn't get much for what it does per year, 1M a year, compared to the linux foundation that gets flooded with 250M$ And outside of money you have to find people who will pass software freedom before their own petty politics.
From my experience with Pip, Npm, Packagist, Crates.io, is that with all of these you gotta be really damn careful and check your dependencies and your depedencies' dependencies to be really sure that you're not installing anything proprietary by accident.
I don't know a single programming language that does this right and that's really sad. Just like how the FSF has their own FSF approved distros maybe the FSF or an organisation like that should start hosting replacement repositories that guarantees all packages to be free software for these things as well.