Well, I’ll be damned. They finally won one it sounds like.

  • helenslunch@feddit.nl
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    11 months ago

    FOSS does not mean “privacy focused”. It means the software is free (as in freedom) and the source code is open and available for modification and redistribution and there are already several subscription-based services on there that I am happy to support.

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      11 months ago

      I’m aware of what foss means, it’s why I out an “and” after it given fdroid has a separate focus on privacy.

      Subscribe to what you like I’d would prefer if fdroid remained as a pillar of security and openness and didn’t welcome in a load corpo cunts.

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        11 months ago

        IIRC, no one stops anyone from making their own repository that people can add to their F-Droid client. But I agree that the native F-Droid repo should stay (more or less) as it is.

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      11 months ago

      Artificial media scarcity subscription models are much harder to implement with licenses like AGPL, but personal data crawlers still pose tremendous risks, especially in the future of technology.