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Free software and inspection are key to software we can trust

38 pointsby grammersover 2 years ago

2 comments

jerojeroover 2 years ago
Now a days the first place I look for software is f-droid. Sometimes it doesn&#x27;t have exactly what I need, but really, more often than not it has applications that are more than good enough for what I&#x27;m looking for.<p>And the biggest advantage of it is actually feeling respected and why not say it, free. It feels good to have an app that&#x27;s designed to do what you need and nothing more, no ads, no internet connection, no one stealing my data.<p>I think the app could still use some more work but, hey, it&#x27;s okay as it is.
jacob019over 2 years ago
F-droid is an oasis of good free software that I trust in the commercial wasteland that is Android. It is like Debian in that packages are not built on the developer&#x27;s infrastructure. That seperation is worth a lot to me.