Linux app depot Flathub may turn into paid-software store
The GNOME and KDE organizations are working on a proposal to crowdsource a big change in Flathub: to make it an app store for Linux – including for paid software.
The proposal appears on the GitHub page of the Plaintext Group. This is an initiative of Schmidt Futures – an NGO backed by former Alphabet chair Eric Schmidt and his wife Wendy which is also funding AI research. The proposal's authors are quite big names in their own right too: GNOME president Robert McQueen, former GNOME executive director and Debian project leader Neil McGovern, and KDE president Aleix Pol.