When a company and distro decide what you can and can't use, is it really free and open source?
Does 'open source' include all vendors and third-party associations as well, or just the code for the operating system?
Android is a close code example of Linux being used. Ubuntu claims to still be "free and open source". So, at least to me, free and open source would mean maintaining your own package system, but giving people easy access to other options should they need or want it.
I wonder if the community will figure out a way to continue to use Flatpak on Ubuntu.
It claims it's off by "default", which probably means there's a PPA somewhere you can install which can reinstate and run it for you. But if their updater doesn't support them either, this could make a distro which already has Frankenstein problems even worse. Think trying to use AUR stuff in a Debian distro. I've seen people do it. It works about as well as you'd imagine LOL
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