Comment on Affordable Android Excellence: Best Smartphones Under $200 in 2024
conciselyverbose@kbin.social 9 months agoAbusing their hard work to buy cheap devices and get their longer OS support for free is not cool.
This is literally a core
Comment on Affordable Android Excellence: Best Smartphones Under $200 in 2024
conciselyverbose@kbin.social 9 months agoAbusing their hard work to buy cheap devices and get their longer OS support for free is not cool.
This is literally a core
Pantherina@feddit.de 8 months ago
No but I meant buying devices of shitty manufacturers and get an OS for free
conciselyverbose@kbin.social 8 months ago
That's not abuse.
If the developers choose to support that hardware, they have a reason. In either case, there is no way to use open source software that's abusive, with the exception of stuff like Amazon taking an open source project, modifying it without distribution so they're not obligated to share their changes, and selling the product as a service (at a scale that makes it extremely difficult for the authors to compete). That's against the spirit of open source even if it wasn't foreseen when licenses were written and is hard to legislate.
Using open source software to save money isn't.