this post was submitted on 10 Jan 2024
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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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[–] slurp@programming.dev 51 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] max641@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago
[–] thepreciousboar@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] slurp@programming.dev 1 points 9 months ago

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