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Re:KDE and GNOME seeks $100k to turn Flathub into a Store fo... by curt15 on Thursday February 23, 2023 @07:15PM (#34918813)
> I am convinced now that they are one of the best ways to ship commercial software on to Linux desktop.

Commercial software would like a comprehensive and relatively stable API like what Windows famously provides. Flatpak's analog of the Windows API is the runtime. What level and duration of maintenance do Flatpak runtimes typically receive?

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Re:KDE and GNOME seeks $100k to turn Flathub into a Store fo... by Conan_Kudo on Thursday February 23, 2023 @08:03PM (#34919239)
Red Hat offers a runtime that has a 10 year lifecycle for applications. Beyond that, I don't know of anything quite like that.

https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2020/08/12/introducing-th...

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