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by teddyh 1712 days ago
I prefer free friends to those that charge me money to be my friend.
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imwillofficial 1712 days ago
Companies that act like friends don’t last long. Business and pleasure and all that
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teddyh 1712 days ago
I was not saying that software is my friend, I was making an example of how some things are worse if they are paid for.
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chmsky00 1712 days ago
Android phones are free like speech, not free like beer.
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teddyh 1712 days ago
We were not discussing the actual phones, nor even Android itself, but the application software running on phones.
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jiminymcmoogley 1712 days ago
more accurately AOSP phones, since Google Location Services is far from free as in freedom
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mattl 1712 days ago
Does any Android phone run a freely licensed image?
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