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op is making the opposite point, saying that companies making closed source software are going to be put off from putting their software on flathub, the clown face is there with the intent to portray flathub's action as being naive and idiotic, arguing that not catering to such companies by not letting them distribute closed source software without telling it's potential users is a bad thing
oh I didn't understand it like that, sorry. but yeah I think foss software should be the priority on linux lol
as most people but not op