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

  • odium@programming.dev
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    11 months 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.

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      11 months ago

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

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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.

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        11 months ago

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