Simple Mobile Tools is being sold to a for-profit firm ZipoApps - eviltoast

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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.

  • itsmect@monero.townEnglish
    19·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • rucking@feddit.deEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      Looks like the community is already forking the project. It would be cool if fdroid has a clean transition to the fork.

      • 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        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

        • Sanyanov@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          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.