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F-Droid is an installable catalogue of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) applications for the Android platform. The client makes it easy to browse, install, and keep track of updates on your device.

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Simple Mobile Tools is dead, long live FossifyX! (feddit.de)

submitted 11 months ago by d_k_bo@feddit.de to c/fdroid@lemmy.ml

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As reported in a reddit post and confirmed in a github discussion, Simple Mobile Tools is being sold to ZippoApps which is known for shady business practices.

It is not yet clear whether they will make the app suite closed source (which would infringe the rights of all contributors since they contributed under the GPLv3 license).

In response to that situation, one of the main contributors forked the project under the name FossifyX and will continue to work on it.

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[–] JoYo@lemmy.ml -3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

that’s good, these tools have been abandoned and unusable on chromebooks ever since the switch to ARCVM.

Edit: I get the feeling that none of you know what ARCVM is.

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 3 points 11 months ago

Chromebooks are not even possible to degoogle. If you use these devices, you buy into Google...