> decision we have made

This might oversell the agency that practicioners have.

Sandboxed zero-install delivery will outcompete anything with more frictionful installs.

It's probably not the right model for a pacemaker though.

Web/JS has been a double-edged sword for FOSS: sure, I can run a free OS, but if most of my "apps" happen to be JS that I can't practically control, then I have won a battle and lost a war.

I wish Haketilo [1] would have caught on more. There's so many free JavaScript apps but we're mostly just missing a way to actually control which version or derivative of the JavaScript is run.

There's also the problem of most free apps not doing a good job of providing license info and a link to source code, but this could be sidestepped by a trusted repository which provides license info itself.

[1] https://haketilo.koszko.org/

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