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.

  • 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.