Upstreams, Downstreams, and Revenue Streams in Ubuntu

“Just because you can do something, doesn’t mean you should.
Case in point: Vendors can take a hefty cut of the profits from
applications sold through their app stores or shipped by default.
But should they?

“With great power comes great responsibility. No, I’m not
talking about Peter Parker and superpowers by spiderbite, I’m
talking about the control that vendors have over platforms like
iOS, Windows, and Ubuntu. While Canonical may not be quite as
powerful as Apple or Microsoft, the company still has a lot of
power when it comes to connecting users to open source applications
and choosing defaults in Ubuntu releases. How is Canonical using
that power? Less heroically than one might hope.”

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