Cross-distro app store

As far as I understand, Flatpak is the best way to go to avoid redundant packaging efforts. Contrary to Snap, which is exclusively under Canonical's control, it is possible to create independent Flatpak repositories. We would need a free-software-only repository. I very much doubt the app-store https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PlaintextGroup/oss-virtual-incubator/main/proposals/flathub-linux-app-store.md presents will stick to a free-software-only policy. In my opinion, the payments/donations aspect of the proposal is good, as long as the software is free as in freedom.

>"Leading figures from Debian, GNOME ..."

I'm amazed they can tear themselves away from their full-time jobs of slandaring/doxxing/canceling/defrauding people like Richard Stallman in order to get anything done at all.

So my vote is "easily ignored".

Here's an interesting piece of news from this recent 'Flathub in 2023' post:

"What’s Next?
[...]
In parallel, we’ll also be able to turn on the Flatpak repo subsets that enable users to select only verified and/or FLOSS apps in the Flatpak CLI or their desktop’s app center UI."

https://discourse.flathub.org/t/flathub-in-2023/3808

Btw, at some point Purism was trying to hire people for sanitizing flathub repos. So that they could be used to enrich the repos of their distro. The announcement is gone now, tho[1]

[1] https://puri.sm/job/pureos-packaging-developer/