Converging and diverging paths

Well, this kerfuffle over trademarks shows the dangers of the "every website to its own" approach, but the central store has a very different set of issues - Apple and Microsoft and Google like the central store because it provides a nice convenient toll-booth.

The FLOSS world should be firmly behind trademarks, and treat them with respect, because they provide the legal guarantee that you're actually getting "the real deal". That was why trademarks were introduced in the first place! And the "every product on its own website" isn't a problem if trademarks are respected and enforced.

Rule 1 - don't mislead your users! Okay, some users do a damn good job of misleading themselves, but we should most definitely not be setting out to mislead others, and if somebody points out that our actions ARE misleading (intentional or not) then we should FIX IT. That's the tragedy here - that it's easy to see why/how users would be mislead, and Fedora seems unable to see the problem.

Why are distros using flatpacks??? They're meant to be distro-agnostic packages, so as original distro software, they don't make sense.

Cheers,
Wol