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Simple Mobile Tools suite to be acquired by Zionist Reich adware company
(news.ycombinator.com)
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this post was submitted on 05 Dec 2023
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The dev has been working hard on a whole suite of apps for years, taking only donations, so I can sympathize if he wants to sell out and be done with it, even if it's very against the free software way.
What is reactionary is the abysmal choice of a company this is. Imagine seeing your old projects now with craptier subscriptions, ads and spyware. I wonder if the main dev even cares. Other contributors are having serious discussions about the copyleft licensing and the legality of this but it seems like the dev and ZipoApps (the company) won't give a single flying fuck.
On the other hand, there are many free software alternatives on F-Droid. And the whole thing is probably being panick-forked too. Doesn't make the situation surrounding free software vs. capitalism any better though.
https://privsec.dev/posts/android/f-droid-security-issues/
Interesting. I have been using Fdroid for a long time. I just installed Accrescent, and it's pretty bare-bones. Hopefully it will continue to develop and grow.
This makes some fair points regarding signing practices. Although I'd point out F-Droid isn't just the F-Droid repo, there are also others, like Izzy's as well as dev's own repos. Obtainium is a lot easier, in a way, but the repos are a good way to look for apps. I'm using Droidify and it's good. The article seems to think Droidify rebranded to Neo Store but they are separate apps made by separate communities.
F-Droid is also undergoing a bit of drama at the moment with leadership on GitLab. I think it's good to remind ourselves that open source (or free software) is not equivalent to security. Nevertheless, it's still better than GPS (I know you can run GPS sandboxes on Graphene but I'm on Graphene and I'd rather stay away from it, even though this article seems to go light on Google). Paired with Obtainium, it's s a good setup for discovery + frequent updates.