<p><pre><code> > The press release was issued, I think, sort of as if it
> came from some sort of independent or cross-vendor project,
> and there’s the snapcraft.io site to back up that impression,
> but every Snappy committer is a Canonical employee
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That's a pretty old trick. Google pulled exactly the same with Open Handset Alliance few years ago.
I cannot even google this Flatpack thing.<p>Author suggestion to use conferences and "cross-distribution and cross-project collaboration" would end with empty chatter as his blog post.<p>Canonical get shit done. Its fulfil a dream were you could make Linux apps without thinking about distribution.