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Fossify File Manager released on f-droid
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this post was submitted on 10 Jan 2024
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That's like, almost 100% identical to the Simple File Manager from Tibor Kaputa, why make a new one?
Simple File Manager (and the other associated apps) got bought by a company, so this is a fork by a long-time maintainer that keeps it FOSS
Great !
So are they going to repackage those apps and sell on the playstore? What's the purpose of buying open source apps? Or it's just to limit open source competition?
I think it's all speculation so far, but I've heard the company is an analytics one, so it's likely to try to sell user data