What use to be the PPA that allowed Ubuntu users to use native .deb packages for Firefox has recently changed to the same meta package that forces installation of Snap and the Firefox snap package.

I am having to remove the meta package, then re-uninstall the snap firefox, then re-uninstall Snap, then install pin the latest build I could get (firefox_116.0.3+build2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1~mt1_arm64.deb) to keep the native firefox build.

I’m so done with Ubuntu.

  • Azrael
    1•11 months ago

    @PseudoSpock @IverCoder that is not true, I work in an open source compagny (since 2016, BSD-3 for most of our works).
    We sell support, training, dev,… expertise. And that is only ONE example.
    Other open source compagnies use dual licensing to make money for example, other provide paid binaries or SaaS…
    You can open source and make money

    • Arthur BesseM
      1•11 months ago

      We sell support, training, dev,… expertise

      Cool, but the comment you’re replying to is not talking about making money from open source in general, it is talking specifically about “pay for play”. Meaning, in my reading at least, the kind of software which users cannot use without paying for.