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

  • @[email protected]
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    201 year ago

    Epic never sued for monetary damages; it wants the court to tell Google that every app developer has total freedom to introduce its own app stores and its own billing systems on Android

    I wonder how this will work out. If the judge actually forces it, so many large apps might show up on alternatives like fdroid and greatly improve fdroid capabilities.

    • @Squizzy
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      271 year ago

      Fdroid better stay as FOSS and privacy focused. I don’t want to see Spotify or some subscription brand bullshit up there.

        • @Squizzy
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          111 year 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.

          • Deceptichum
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            81 year ago

            Can I introduce you to F-Droid+? It’s only $9.99 for the first 3 months.

          • @pirat
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            11 year 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.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year 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.

      • arthurpizza
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        21 year ago

        I don’t believe the F-Droid will ever be implementing any kind of payment processing through the app store.