While I appreciate the discussion being kicked off here, can you please take care not to make sweeping statements of fact on behalf of the store, snapd or snapcraft teams. It would be better to discover the facts first from the teams involved, and then make a post about them, rather than stating as a fact with caveats such as “as far as I know”.
As we haven’t yet fully launched the snap purchasing system, some of what’s being worked on is not set in stone. So to claim that there is ‘no protection’ on an as-yet un-launched product feature is misleading.
“takes a 20-30% commission… which goes to Ubuntu” is not something I think you can speak with authority on. While Canonical is the lead sponsor of the Ubuntu project, and there may well be paid apps in the store in the future. Those applications come with commercial arrangements between Canonical (the company) and the software publisher, not with Ubuntu as a project. Saying that the 20-30% (or whatever the amount is) “goes to Ubuntu” is misleading.
Note that in the External repositories thread you linked to the Ubuntu T&C when the snap store has their own T&C, which is linked from the bottom of every dashboard page. These documents have different wording. The snap store document should be taken as the T&C for the snap store, not the
The confusion between these two pages should be cleared up however.
The store team have done some work already to de-brand the snap store. You’ll notice it doesn’t show Ubuntu branding everywhere that it used to. We’ve still some way to go, and we appreciate people pointing out those places where we can improve.
Thanks again for raising these issues.