Please address "store is not open-source" again

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there are ongoing threads on that topic, not sure if another one needs to be opened …

Linux Mint 20 disables deb2snap packages, and Snap's growing external adoption problem

The only thing the hardcoded assertions key currently enforces is that each snapd instance is only connected to a single snap store. A different distribution like Manjaro could very well ship a modified snapd to their users which points at their own store. Manjaro chose to use the snap store hosted by Canonical because they like the advantages that gives them. This is no different from how Linux Mint used to point apt on their devices to the Ubuntu repo’s in the beginning and switched to their …