Why would anyone offer an alternate store for snaps?
Ubuntu seems to have made clear that the snap client will not be able to connect to alternative stores. What is the point of building an alternative store.
Further snap is controlled by one company. Canonical has a history of developing groundbreaking new things for the Linux community before unceremoniously killing them off.
* Ubuntu One
* Unity Desktop
* Ubuntu Touch
* Upstart Init system
Do you see a trend here? There is a reason the community is skeptical of something completely controlled by Canonical.
You have described a trend where those technologies failed to gain sustainable traction and Canonical stopped investing in them. Whether they did this because they are evil or unlucky is not the point.
Ubuntu seems to have made clear that the snap client will not be able to connect to alternative stores. What is the point of building an alternative store.
Further snap is controlled by one company. Canonical has a history of developing groundbreaking new things for the Linux community before unceremoniously killing them off.
* Ubuntu One * Unity Desktop * Ubuntu Touch * Upstart Init system
Do you see a trend here? There is a reason the community is skeptical of something completely controlled by Canonical.