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   Kyle Gospodnetich (kylegospo@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 08:21:01 JST Kyle Gospodnetich

   • Rich Felker

   @hipsterelectron @cas @dalias For instance, Fedora shipping a broken OBS package that they're currently being threatened with legal action over by the OBS developers.

   Flatpak and Flathub provide a known functioning base that the OBS team has decided to use, and a distro is actively harming that by doing their own thing.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 08:21:33 JST Rich Felker

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     @kylegospo @hipsterelectron @cas Threatening legal action against distros for shipping a modified version of the software is *extremely* hostile to the principles of FOSS. I would be very wary of any project doing that. Even Mozilla backed down from that behavior.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 08:24:46 JST Rich Felker

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     @kylegospo @hipsterelectron @cas Can you clarify "not functional"? Does not work at all for anything? Or fails to do something upstream wants it to do?

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     Kyle Gospodnetich (kylegospo@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 08:24:47 JST Kyle Gospodnetich

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     • Rich Felker

     @dalias @hipsterelectron @cas normally I would agree, but this package is not functional and is installed over top of the official one because the Fedora flatpak repository has higher priority than Flathub. It's so bad that it's actively damaging their image and brand.