Snaps are universal Linux packages

Re:Snaps are universal Linux packages by azernik on Friday February 03, 2017 @01:27PM (#13561957)

My impression is the other way around... ish. Canonical tends to release their own solution to problems that the broader community is trying to solve, but not fast enough for their liking. Hence Mir before Wayland, upstart before systemd, etc.

You could call the broader community's refusal to adopt the Canonical solution NIH too, but my view is more that Canonical's shipped - but usually inferior for non-Ubuntu users - solutions prompt the community to stop trying to perfect their version's architecture and just polish and release it already.

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Re:Snaps are universal Linux packages by dustinkirkland on Friday February 03, 2017 @02:28PM (#13562482)

There are two ways this has played out over the last 13 years. a) Canonical develops an open source solution to a real problem but RH and others choose not to contribute or adopt (e.g. bzr, Launchpad, upstart, Mir, Unity, LXD, Juju, Snaps, et al.). Or b) Canonical adopts open source tech from RH or others and works hard to deliver it nicely for Ubuntu users (e.g. KVM, Compiz, systemd, Ceph, etc.). Either way, inevitably Canonical is perceived as evil by an unweilding segment of the tech community, for either not adopting RH's solution or not contributing enough to RH's solution. How much should Canonical care about the unreasonable opinions of a handful of noisy Fedora fans?

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