[mcny]

> Can you explain how? Since I've published things to F-Droid and since they also control signing and building (just like Apple and Google in this article), they can freely modify and change what's published on their store.

I think the perspective is that the distribution shields its users from possible upstream shenanigans (think stories that we used to hear about how popular free and open source Chrome extensions get bought and sold and ended up showing ads on Chrome opening page)