Simple Mobile apps have been very popular among FOSS enthusiasts. I've personally been using the Gallery, Contacts and the Phone app since a few years now. It's a shame that it has come to this, will be on the lookout for their forks.
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Wtf. I paid for the apps to avoid exactly this....
Too many people think the "free" in free software means "without monetary cost". Development costs money. If nobody pays, it gets sold
Same here. Donated not only to cover my installs, but also for everyone I recommended it to. I hope the f-droid version wont be affected, otherwise I have to uninstall the upcomming bloat- and spyware ridden versions manually from a bunch of devices smh.
I mean I am fine with apps not being maintained and eventually break, but selling out and breaching trust like this is exactly how regular companies would treat me and why I chose FOSS in the first place.
Looks like the community is already forking the project. It would be cool if fdroid has a clean transition to the fork.
That would be a terrible precedent...
Oh we'll just "cleanly" (silently) update to a different fork by a different dev.
Thats exactly what we are trying to avoid google play "cleanly" updating our apps to the new, spyware apps
Agreed
F-Droid should halt updates if app stops being FOSS (which F-Droid is all about) and then introduce the most popular fork as a standalone app.
Well, you paid and still got sold.
Yeah... Fuck me, for trying to compensate someone for their work so that they dont have to sell it to a spyware company.... I'm the moron here
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Yeah I also paid for it.
I would rather let the project die than my data being sold out to a gang of parasites like it has been
Unless everyone is paying, that doesn't work. You alone won't cover the costs of their development.
That's why in general I dislike the model of payments or subscriptions in the current trend of software development. You pay for the app, but then the owners still pull the rug of under you, essentially using your own money to undermine you or even implement the exact opposite of what you want.
Personally I'd prefer if there was something like a subsidy for FOSS development. Failing that, I prefer the bounty system: instead of paying for the app, you pay for the development of specifc features (or for solving specific bug reports) you want.
And this is why I never pay for apps. You never know what changes (external or internal) are going to enshittify it next.
If you dont pay for apps, they will 100% be enshittified
Hilarious that you read enough cory doctorow to know the term "enshittification" but don't know what "free" software really means