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F-Droid exploring to include paid apps, in-apps, subscription, and ads in app (f-droid.org)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://r.nf/post/1771956

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Everyone here is bummed out, but fails to see the upside.

To rival the Play Store, there needs to be an alternative package manager on Android which hosts proprietary apps.

The outcome is a decrease in Googles revenue and eases the hold they have on Android as a Play Store dependant operating system.

If F-Droid didn't step up, Epic would be the only contender to the Play Store. At least this way we know there will be some degree of democracy.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't even read this as allowing proprietary apps. They are investigating allowing different monetarisation methods for open source apps and building open source tooling to help with that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

My bad, poor choice of wording on my part.

When I'm talking about proprietary in this context, I don't mean closed source, I mean it as in the financial sense of not being copy-left, or under any sort of licence which permits free adoption of their code.