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Comment on Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid

WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

This is why I didn’t bother switching to GOS, Lineage, Calyx etc despite being sick of Apple’s anti-foss monopoly — marketed as Privacy™️ and Security™️ — for years.

The late stage capitalism of western oligarchies indicated that Google’s rug pull of AOSP was an imminent inevitability. After already having to change my services and workflows multiple times over the last 2 decades — despite careful analysis and forethought — due to services ever changing value propositions, acquisitions, and all other forms of enshittification, I’m at the point where I won’t bother wasting energy on 99% of digital products unless they’re open source and I can run them indefinitely on my own Linux server.

The more dependent you grow on digital products, the more interdependent they become, and the more time and effort is required to replace or substitute them.

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Tetsuo@jlai.lu ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

This is why I didn’t bother switching to GOS, Lineage, Calyx etc despite being sick of Apple’s anti-foss monopoly — marketed as Privacy™️ and Security™️ — for years.

Bullshit. If you liked so much your freedom and privacy you would have many opportunities to use open source ROMs. You chose to stay on your iPhone because it was easy.

After already having to change my services and workflows multiple times over the last 2 decades

I can’t believe someone who has been for years on an iPhone would pretend they are an ardent defender of freedom and open source.

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- WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Sure thing, buddy. Nice gate keeping high horse ya got there. Do you also use Arch, btw?
  
  “If you don’t spend hundreds of hours switching from big tech corp controlled platform A — you’ve used for almost 20 years — to switch to big tech corp controlled platform B, you obviously don’t support freedom and open source”
  
  I actually contribute to the development of open source projects. Do you create/give value? Or are you just a taker/user?
  
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  - baggachipz@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
    The never-ending purity tests are so exhausting. “You’re not a real vegan, you eat fermented food which kills the yeast!”
    
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- feinstruktur@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Nice nick!
  
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WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

This is why I didn’t bother switching to GOS, Lineage, Calyx etc despite being sick of Apple’s anti-foss monopoly — marketed as Privacy™️ and Security™️ — for years.

I’m at the point where I won’t bother wasting energy on 99% of digital products unless they’re open source and I can run them indefinitely on my own Linux server.

but… this doesn’t make any sense. the roms you brought up can be still used indefinitely, they will still be able to install any apps. maybe except when they have installed the official google suite, but that’s always a user choice in the popular android rom world, none of these preinstall it, and microg users are not affected

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yistdaj@pawb.social ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
What stops those open source projects having that same rugpull? AOSP was open source and for a long time could be installed on one’s phone indefinitely.

You could argue ownership, but if Audacity can be bought then so can nearly anything.

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- notfromhere@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I’m out of the loop, what’s that about Audacity? Looks like they still have a github repo with very recent activity and Wikipedia says their trademark was acquired by a company in 2021.
  
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  - yistdaj@pawb.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    As far as I remember, Audacity’s maintainers, previously just some volunteers with no organisation, decided to sell the ownership of the project to a company with some guitar platform. Nothing changed at first, they employed the maintainers to work on the same project they were already working on.
    
    Then they started adding controversial telemetry (outcry convinced them to switch to opt in, I believe) and some soft forks appeared. I vaguely also remember hearing that there’s some contract that the company owns the source code, so relicencing to a proprietary licence is easy and possible in future. All the new software the companty launches is proprietary, and there’s signs they want to tie it all together into a single suite.
    
    Nothing majorly bad has happened to Audacity, yet. But decisions are no longer community driven, as shown by the telemetry drama. I fear it’s a matter of time.
    
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    yistdaj@pawb.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I should probably add: if it becomes proprietary, the remaining soft fork will likely die. Turns out very few people have the technical knowledge for Audacity.
    
    If you want to read the telemetry controversy/drama, I found this one I’d read years ago: github.com/audacity/audacity/pull/835 I remember feeling a bit bad for the maintainers.
    
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