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Canonical's Steam Snap is Causing Headaches for Valve
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There's a misunderstanding here. What we mean is that the Snap system itself is proprietary. The server side is proprietary and there's no way to add repos other than Canonical's.
Flatpak is open, and anybody can create/add a remote.
Both can be used to package and distribute proprietary software. But the same could be said of .deb or .rpm