[isantop]

> What's stopping Ubuntu from just taking back the parts of Pop!_OS they want?

Nothing. Everything we create here at System76 is open source, either GPL or some form of permissive license.

(Edit: To be clear, I'm just answering your rhetorical question, not insinuating anything about the tone of your post for sure.)

[CivBase]

Woops. I re-read my comment, and the "assuming they actually want anything from Pop!_OS to begin with" bit reads like an insult to Pop!_OS. My bad!

I just figure Canonical probably has a specific vision for Ubuntu (just like System76 surely has for Pop!_OS), so they don't necessarily want to pull in every feature from every downstream distro. The prevalence of purposed-focused distros is one of my favorite things about the Linux ecosystem.

I actually haven't used Pop!_OS yet, but it looks good and it's on my short list of distros to try. I didn't mean to imply anything negative about it.