[srcthr]

This model destroys any reason for software to be open source. What's the point of having source code if you just run the binary provided by some party?

Reminds me of the early days of the tensorflow where everyone used whatever binary package worked an no one could run anyone else's code because people kept getting stale binaries somewhere in the stack.

[jcastro]

The packaging format doesn't change source code availability or restrictions.

[eichin]

What's the snap equivalent of "apt-get source"? Failing to find that meant for me, it was time to start purging snapd from new installs entirely (and to start fretting about ubuntu starting to be philosophically incompatible with what I want out of a system.) Fortunately even with 23.04 (server) that still seems to leave an entirely working system.

[goodpoint]

On a practical level it's completely different.